> From: Dan Connolly [mailto:connolly@w3.org] > Sent: 02 February 2001 23:18 [...] > Triples are an idiom that show up all over the place, > in my experience. They look like a pretty important > and useful modelling primitive. You can model a directed graph using a set of triples; you can model an arbitrarily complex data structure with a directed graph. As primitives, they are sufficient to model any other structure. I'm not aware of a simpler primitive that allows you to model an arbitrarily complex data structure using only a single set containing instances of that primitive. - Peter -- Peter Crowther, Melandra LimitedReceived on Saturday, 3 February 2001 10:30:26 GMT
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