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Re: Lists vs collections. (was: Re: response to Brian's rdfs review)

From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:37:36 -0600
Message-Id: <p05111b12b9f4c817c38e@[10.0.100.86]>
To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org 

>  >>>pat hayes said:
>>
>>  >At 10:46 09/11/2002 -0500, Dan Brickley wrote:
>>
>>  This is entirely talking about 'lists', but we call them
>>  'collections'. We ought to get the terminology straight. Lists is the
>>  traditional term and universally used, so why did we invent
>>  parseType=collection??
>
>DAML+OIL invented it with the name "daml:collection"

OK, I won't mention it again. DAML seems to have spread s**t all over 
the planet. I guess I have to bear part of the blame.

Pat

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