Re: [RIF] Reaction to the proposal by Boley, Kifer et al

Michael Kifer wrote:
>> We have also just seen a proposal to add counted quantifiers.
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>
> This was thrown in but to make it fly one would have to incorporate these
> quantifiers into the answer-set and well-founded semantics. (My understanding
> is that Francois main interest is in CWA-based dialects.)
> I think a better and a more natural way to express this kind of features is to
> use aggregate functions. (For CWA-based dialects.)
>   
C pounting quantifiers" can be expressed by aggregate functions. As
shorthand, or syntactic sugaring, they aree very uimportant *in practice*.

François