Re: [xdi] The Great Symbol Swap

["Davis, Peter" <Peter.Davis@neustar.biz>]

On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:41 AM, =Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@xdi.org> wrote:

I strongly prefer # for the dictionary space because it is already the broadly adopted sign for a hashtag, and while not a perfect match for the dictionary space, it is close enough

for this very reason, i think we should avoid the hash tag. for consumers finding a dictionary term in the wild (#email) by itself will simply cause confusion. I prefer $ since its’ use may be less likely to suffer from semantic collision.

Peter Davis: Neustar, Inc.

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