Peter Crowther wrote, > Dan Connolly wrote, > > 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. Huh? You can model a directed graph using an ordered set. Is a set of triples 'simpler' than a set with an ordering? If triples are useful for the job at hand, then fair enough. But I don't think it'll help much to attempt to give them any other sort of justification. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin InterX Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England msabin@interx.com http://www.interx.com/Received on Saturday, 3 February 2001 11:12:30 GMT
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