Re: PROV-ISSUE-239 (TLebo): is wasGeneratedBy(e) meaningful? [prov-dm]

All the more reason why I'd much rather just make a comment about silly arities than to spend time figuring out what they mean.

-Tim

On Feb 6, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 01:26, Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> +1, but perhaps we make a note of it in the definition, "wasGeneratedBy([],e) is not a meaningful assertion"
> 
> It's as meaningful as entity(e) in:
> 
> entity(e)
> agent(e)
> 
> and :
> 
> wasGeneratedBy([], e)
> entity(e)
> 
> (Oh, you know the entity was created! Can we have non-created entities?)
> 
> 
> But I agree, we could put in a little disclaimer in those cases where
> it looks like you can optionalize yourself out of not actually having
> much of an assertion record anymore.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
> 
> 

Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 02:33:27 UTC