On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote: > > How are you disposed towards (datatype, stuff) where stuff may or may > > not be further structured? > > If 'stuff' constitutes (or contains) in some explicit fashion a lexical > representation which is interpreted in terms of that datatype, sure. I'm sorry if this is nit-picking; conceptually, it seems easier to deal with each literal as a member of its datatype, not carrying an accumulation of cruft that's leaked from the representations of other DTs. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Hang on, wasn't he holding a wooden parrot? No! It was a porcelain owl.Received on Friday, 23 August 2002 07:30:35 EDT
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