Re: simplified datatyping proposal

On 2002-02-21 1:13, "ext Graham Klyne" <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> wrote:

> At 12:27 PM 2/20/02 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote:
>> Well, I half-agree, but we can't have all three things at once:
>> 
>> 1. You and Graham want range-sensitive inline literals.
>> 2. Dan C. wants an inline literal used with no datatyping to unambiguously
>> denote a character string.
>> 3. We all want the logic to be monotonic.
>> 
>> Something has to give.
> 
> Didn't the S proposal achieve all that?

No. It didn't. And let's not go there again, eh? ;-)

Patrick 

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Received on Thursday, 21 February 2002 03:47:01 UTC