Meta Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for meta-discussion of the Stack Exchange family of Q&A websites. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
A quick look at float and floats shows that there are two unrelated uses for the tags: floating-point numbers and a CSS style.
Is that useful to anybody? Should float and floats be banned from any future uses?
I would also suggest that any current uses be changed to floating-point or css-floating but there are over 1,100 of them that have to be manually checked and edited.
float is an actual keyword in C# and Java (and a few other languages too). It has a very specific meaning: a 32 bit single-precision floating point number.
I see your point about its ambiguity with CSS float. But I don't think your proposed solution is better than the current situation, although I would be in favor of creating a tag synonym for floats.
float has a specific meaning in C#, a different specific meaning in Python, and an unrelated specific meaning in CSS. From meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18878/…: "•Each tag should stand on its own: if a tag only makes sense when used in a group with other tags, something is wrong." Since float only makes sense when combined with css, html, python, c#, java, etc., when is float ever right to use?
float tag, I'd say it's better to leave it the way it is. Note that you can always qualify the tag with css or python; this is why we allow multiple tags on a question.
float as a tag, then when they type float into the tag box, they'll see floating-point and css-floating. At that point won't it be obvious which one to choose?