[Developers] write grammar questions: question 1 -- user-defined types

David Flanagan david at davidflanagan.com
Tue Jun 3 19:47:18 UTC 2008


Will Fitzgerald wrote:
> (First in a series of questions)
> 
> I created a new type '/test/note'. It appears that the actual name for
> my type is 'user/wf/default_domain/x_test_note'. (This is on the
> sandbox)
> 
> Is there documentation for this somewhere? Is the general rule that
> '/' converts to space, and an 'x' is prepended? Under what conditions
> is a x_-style type converted to the form I created?
> 

As a MQL programmer I find it disorienting to use the freebase.com 
client.  I've gotten used to using ids everywhere, but the client wants 
(and displays) names everywhere.  So I'm not surprised to hear that 
you'd enter a name that looks like an id!

	David Flanagan


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