Re: firts and rdf:rest as functional property

On 20 Mar 2009, at 15:37, Richard H. McCullough wrote:

> I have often wondered why RDF doesn't allow lists
> to written in the style that is used in programming
> languages today:
>
>   [a,b,c,d]
>
> You can use "list" as a predicate
>
>   X list [a,b,c,d]
>
> They're easy to parse, easy to read.

You can do this in N3:

basket contains (chicken cheese yoghurt) .

No idea what this talk about rdf lists not being real lists is about,  
and just being syntactic things.
Seems pretty bazaar to me when we have the two relations rdf:first and  
rdf:next . I don't see why these can't be functional.

Henry

> Dick McCullough