Re: around the table on datatypes [ was: Re: datatyping draft 3 (for telecon)]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Brian McBride wrote:

> At 10:25 19/02/2002 +0000, Jan Grant wrote:
> [...]
>
> > >    o Are there features that could be dropped and
> > >      still meet the needs of your users? (Which?)
> >
> >Of the datatyping options presented, I prefer the doublet approach, for
> >what it's worth.
>
> Does that mean:
>
>    1 you could drop the datatype triple
>    2 you could drop either the doublet or the datatype tripple
>      and would prefer to drop the triple
>    3 none of the above (please clarify)


3.

> > >    o Does the proposal 'work for you'?
> >
> >As clean as the resulting MT may be, I still find this construction
> >ugly.
>
> This construction?

The blank-node style of constructions, in general.


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Received on Tuesday, 19 February 2002 09:33:15 UTC