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Re: proposed: use abstract syntax notation (asn06)

From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:22:17 -0500
To: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)
Cc: Michael Sintek <sintek@dfki.uni-kl.de>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hassan_A=EFt-Kaci?= <hak@ilog.com>, Gerd Wagner <wagnerg@tu-cottbus.de>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <20061113212223.6A0E74F46A@homer.w3.org>


> > rif:Quantif sl:subClassOf rif:Condit .
> > rif:? sl:domain rif:Quantif ;
> >        sl:range rif:Var ;
> >        sl:minCardinality 1 .
> > ...
> 
> Looking at such a syntax and comparing it to BNF, my reaction is:
> why the hell do we need this trouble?

I see Michael Sintek's point to be that there is abstract syntax for
abstract syntax languages.  He's showing what triples could be behind
asn06, EBNF-with-role-names, etc.  It's an interesting point, of course.

Meanwhile, I'm proposing asn06 -- with a fairly-reasable concrete syntax
-- not this turtle serialization of the data serialized by asn06.

    -- Sandro
Received on Monday, 13 November 2006 21:23:03 GMT

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