Re: how to handle multi value tags?
समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:07:19 +0530
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 4:45=E2=80=AFPM Erica Qi <[email protected]> wr= ote: > > I worry about a snowball of brittleness created be munging names together= . > > Editing, adding, displaying and searching would then be required to dynam= ically create names as they try to access the data. A search for multiple = artists in a field would become a ugly thing. > > What about turning those fields into a list of values when more than one = value exists. A simple test could detect them and do the right thing in ea= ch scenario. Yeah, this sounds reasonable. I will try doing this. Thank You. > > Editing, adding, displaying and searching could use their best mechanisms= accordingly without making up variable names everywhere on a record by rec= ord basis. > > Erica