Re: Notation for sets in n3

Hm.. what about sets of sets then?
|a |b c| |d e f|| would be hard to parse I guess :->

Indeed, as Yosi wrote,
  "no matter what we do, readability is compromised"
also something like
  _{a _{b c} _{d e f}}
hm..

-- 
Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/




naudts guido <naudts_vannoten@yahoo.com>
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18/08/2004 13:08

 
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        cc:     Yosi Scharf <syosi@mit.edu>
        Subject:        Re: Notation for sets in n3



Why not use:
|a b c|
It looks a bit funny but it's easy to use once it
becomes a habit and it's easy to parse.

Guido
--- Yosi Scharf <syosi@mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Recently, it was decided that Cwm should have
> support for sets.
>
> This leads to the question, what delimeter should a
> set have in n3? The
> problem is n3 already use every ascii delimeter I
> can think of.
>     (...) is taken for lists
>     {...} is taken for formulae
>     [...] is taken for anonymous nodes
>     <...> is taken for resources
>
> My father suggested «...», but being as that cannot
> be typed on a
> standard keyboard, is unlikely to be useful.
>
> My personal opinion is something like {|...|} would
> be best. Something
> like $(...) might also work. It seems no matter what
> we do, readability
> is compromised.
>
> Yosi
>
>




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