Stream: fhir/infrastructure-wg
Topic: Primitive Ordering on DataTypes page
Gino Canessa (Dec 10 2019 at 17:41):
In the context of the new int64 type I was reminded of a periodic niggle...
Created J#25294 to ask that the primitive types be sorted on the DataTypes page - right now they are unsorted and it is awkward to use (e.g., comparing the various integer types for ranges, etc.).
Thanks!
Vadim Peretokin (Dec 11 2019 at 10:53):
It would also make it less error-prone to scan the list :)
Grahame Grieve (Dec 11 2019 at 22:11):
I am not in favor of this principally because it will make comparison between versions hard
Josh Mandel (Dec 11 2019 at 22:22):
Whose comparisons ?
Josh Mandel (Dec 11 2019 at 22:22):
Like, people running W3C diff tools?
Grahame Grieve (Dec 11 2019 at 22:22):
yes
Josh Mandel (Dec 11 2019 at 22:22):
OK. Does anyone besides you use this (and on something as long as the datatypes page)?
Grahame Grieve (Dec 11 2019 at 22:25):
well, people don't have to ask me for permission before using it, so I'm not sure. But I think it's a very important thing. say, https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=http%3A%2F%2Fhl7.org%2Ffhir%2FR4%2Fdatatypes.html&doc2=http%3A%2F%2Fbuild.fhir.org%2F%2Fdatatypes.html - I think people would be nuts to make good use of that
Lloyd McKenzie (Dec 11 2019 at 22:43):
Making the current spec easy to read is more important than making interversion comparisons pretty. The former will impact 1-2 orders of magnitude more people - and impact them more frequently
Grahame Grieve (Dec 11 2019 at 22:48):
I also object to alphabetical order because there's some logic to the groupings - e.g. dates together. The grouping is not as coherent as it should be
Grahame Grieve (Dec 11 2019 at 22:50):
a better order would be
boolean
integer | unsignedInt | positiveInt | integer64 | decimal
instant | date | dateTime | time
string | code | id
uri | url | canonical | oid | uuid
base64Binary
markdown
Josh Mandel (Dec 11 2019 at 22:51):
Agreed that groupings would help!
Josh Mandel (Dec 11 2019 at 22:51):
Ordering across them is harder ;-)
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