On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 08:53, Dave Beckett wrote: [...] > You mean .foo for a variable and :foo? -1 to both of those It's funny how idioms like that go from the apache process into wider community use. I even hear "plus one" in voice channels these days. Part of me is re-discovering old idioms like "whereas... resolved" and "any objections? hearing none, so ordered". But it occurs to me that +1 and -2 are probably pretty i18n-friendly. A straw poll, only tangentially related to WG business: if English is _not_ your native language, do you find the +1/-1 idiom straightforward? > as both of those > are already overloaded several times in RDQL, SPARQL and nearby > syntaxes such as N3. > > Dave -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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