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Re: What the #@&*$(!@ is going on here?! (was RE: N-Triples for proposed xsi:type [was Re: xsi:type test case ]

From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:22:46 +0100 (BST)
To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208071720510.3661-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> 

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, pat hayes wrote:

> Well, no; in fact, they can't be self-denoting in this setup. If
> (int)10 is supposed to denote an integer, then if it were
> self-denoting it would have to be an integer, which it isn't. In
> fact, you can't put integers into syntax, so *anything* that denotes
> integers isn't self-denoting.

That should disappoint a lot of travelling salesmen. OK, there may be a
tacit one-step indirection of the same kind that you may want to model
weighted graphs.


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