RE: More Thoughts on Links and Operation Subclasses

On Monday, February 03, 2014 10:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 2/3/14 3:19 PM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
> > I think the biggest problem is how this stuff is documented and the fact
> > that people won't read it:-)  It's not a contract. It's a hint. Clients
have
> > to interpret the response in any case. Some will be more tolerant, some
will
> > break when they don't get back what they expected. That's similar to how
> > people often run into troubles when parts of a website get redesigned
and
> > "nothing works anymore" because it looks different or they have to take
> > different paths.
> 
> This is where TURTLE is your friend. The narrative is more readable in
> TURTLE that it will ever be in JSON-LD.

Sorry, but I don't see how this is relevant in this context.


> JSON-LD is for the coders that don't want to make a TURTLE parser etc..
> But, to write good code you really have to understand what exactly you
> are doing.

Right. That applies to just about every technology.


> I encourage you to discuss in TURTLE so that more folks get involved in
> these discussions.

Yep.. Ruben will convert the examples to Turtle and we will probably include
both versions in the spec eventually.


> I make this comment because there was a nice series
> of points from 'John Yaya' that kinda got lost in the JSON-LD examples
> he made. More folks would zone in if those examples are the more
> readable TURTLE :-)

Do you have a pointer? That probably happened on another list. At least he
didn't post to public-hydra.


Cheers,
Markus


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