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Re: minimal requirements for Arch document

From: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:01:11 +0100
Message-ID: <471C58C7.9080707@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
To: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
CC: public-rif-wg@w3.org

Michael Kifer wrote:

> In BLD, if we have a##b and b[foo->bar] then it does not follow that
> a[foo->bar]. But a true object-oriented extension (a la F-logic, for example)
> would add nonmon inheritance and a[foo->bar] would follow.

The possibility that such an extension might be wanted is another good 
argument why ## should not be in BLD. Such an interpretation of ## would 
be in conflict with other interpretations such as RDFS/OWL and should 
use a different predicate.

Dave
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