Re: unhappy responses

If you want to follow up off list I think that it is important to  
make it very clear that you are *not* doing so in your capacity as a  
member of the WG, never mind as chair of the WG. I agree with whoever  
said that we should avoid getting into a debate with here about  
subjective judgements.

Ian


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. Not that I'm passing judgement on the merit of doing
> so. Just noting that I don't see a call for removing the ability to do
> what you describe. While she did suggest making hasKey functional I
> considered that an attempt to have the name align with what her view
> of the semantics are, not as a statement that the functionality you
> suggest isn't desirable.
>
> In any case, I'll follow up and get back with what I find.
>
>
> -Alan
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bijan.
>>
>

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