Replacing term "hashtag" with "hash mark" to prevent spread of misinformation #357
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The hashtag is more of a concept for microblogging services like Twitter. The proper term for stuffs following the ("#") is "fragment identifier". Actual term omitted for brevity and ease of reading.
Replacing word "hashtag" with "hash mark"
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Well spotted. This should definitely not be hashtag - could you let me know what you think of the comment on the change? I would be happy to merge otherwise (and thanks for the PR!) |
Added the number sign symbol after the term "hash mark", preceding the existing examples that use it.
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My pleasure. And thanks for getting back so quickly. Wasn't sure exactly what you were looking for, so I made a slight change to add additional clarification in a new commit. Hopefully that helps users understand what they're looking at in the examples already in place in the book. |
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@jhabdas I appreciate your changes here. It appears that this PR can't be merged at the moment but it would be fantastic if you could rebase. I think the clarification is perfect as is. |
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Thanks again! I've manually brought this in as I was working on the same files today. |
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Thanks for pulling in my changes, Addy. My feeble attempt to rebase last week ended up pulling in a bunch of unrelated commits, and so I had to do some history rewriting to keep this branch clean. Looking forward to continuing through the book. |
According to RFC 3986, the identifier following the number sign ("#") character is called a fragment identifier. Hashtag is a microblogging concept, and the terms should not be used interchangeably when referring to the structure of a URI.
Proper usage of hashtag, e.g. "Thanks for recently favoriting my hashtag-less tweet talking up this book."