From: Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:05:00 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: comment
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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ I think it could be really powerful and useful, especially if it becomes part of
 
 > It looks like an interesting idea.  I don't have time right now to look at it in depth, but it looks interesting. -- [[Will]]
 
+> I agree such a separation makes some sense. But note that the discussion on [[todo/structured_page_data]]
+> talks about associating data types with fields for a good reason: It's hard to later develop a good UI for
+> querying or modifying a page's data if all the data has an implicit type "string". --[[Joey]] 
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 ## Second Pass
 
 I have written additional plugins which integrate with the [[plugins/contrib/field]] plugin to both set and get structured page data.