Re: Literals, language, equality

At 07:42 PM 9/30/01 +0100, Brian McBride wrote:


>Graham Klyne wrote:
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>>Seem to me to not be mutually satisfiable.
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>Not even if one distinguishes between strings and literals?

Hmmm... reverse-engineering intent from English documents is such a pain ;-)

Actually, the paragraph above the definition of equality says "language 
tagging is part of the string value".  It seems to me that the terms 
"string" and "literal" are being used fairly interchangeable in this area.

#g


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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Monday, 1 October 2001 04:50:43 UTC