Re: Input sought on datatyping tradeoff

At 06:55 13/07/2002 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:

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>Well if literals represent `strings', then the simple idiom is likely to be
>almost completely useless in OWL.  Other than that I haven't thought
>through the tidy solution, as it is quite different from what I am used to.
>For example, it allows blank nodes to denote datatype values, leading to a
>partial conflation of the object domain and the datatype domain, potentially
>increasing the difficulty of reasoning.

That sounds important.  Can you say more?

Brian