[Freeciv-Dev] Re: new natural names patch (PR#1127)

[Gregory Berkolaiko <gberkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > + * This is controlled through the nation's ruleset like this:
> > + *   cities = "Washington (ocrean, river, swamp)", "New York
> (!mountains)"
> 
> "ocrean"?
> 
> "What is "!mountains" supposed to mean? Is it a C-style negation? If
> so, it is only intuitive to C programmers and not to anyone else.
> Normal people consider the exclamation sign to increase the meaning of
> something, not negate it. Use another notation like for example "not
> mountains". I would use the proper negation sign, ¬, which is in at
> least latin1.

can't find it on my keyboard.
maybe just "-" (minus) then?
negation, kind of universal...

G.

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