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

From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:23:32 +0000
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021111092226.026a0078@0-mail-1.hpl.hp.com>
To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, danbri+rdfs@w3.org
Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org 

At 22:49 09/11/2002 -0600, pat hayes wrote:
>>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??

We didn't.  Daml did.

Does the form of words I suggested before not work.  They are collections 
represented by a list structure.

Brian
Received on Monday, 11 November 2002 04:22:23 EST

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