<p>Shouldn't we name the caret tag <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/new/r-caret">r-caret</a> for consistency with SO?</p>

<p>(The main reason is compatibility. Another minor reason is we frequently migrate questions CV &lt;-> SO. So if you migrate SO->CV, the tag is instantly wrong. This creates constant need for tag cleanup and mistagging.)</p>

<p>(The reason for the SO tag naming is <strong>disambiguation</strong>, not a violation of why we don't have language-specific tags.
It is to disambiguate on SO from posts about 'caret', referring to an onscreen text-cursor ; and they use 'punctuation' for the operator/punctuation symbol.
This is also the reason that SO tag can't and shouldn't change.
So all that is not up for discussion, and the SO-side usage won't change.)</p>
