Re: unhappy responses

On 5 Mar 2009, at 15:48, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Bijan Parsia
> <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On 5 Mar 2009, at 15:28, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> I completely agree about the need to let these be represented. The
>>> question that Marijke raises isn't about that but about how we
>>> document the feature.
>>
>> I didn't derive that from her email. I think Jim is right that  
>> we'll need
>> more documentation, but I thought her point was the change the name  
>> (or make
>> the feature functional). Neither of those seem ideal.
>
> Changing the name would be what I consider along the lines of
> documentation.

[snip]

Really? Er...I generally consider a necessary feature of documentation  
to be that it doesn't change any implementation.

So, if changing the name is on the table, I'm much much less  
sympathetic. Since she concedes it's a judgement call, why are we  
pushing this further?

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Thursday, 5 March 2009 15:55:39 UTC