Re: Draft response to: Re: major technical: blank nodes

>On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:50 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>  <<After volunteering for this I noticed that Dan
>>  had already responded to this message with an
>>  [OK?], so this might now be redundant.
>
>oops.
>
>>   But here
>>  goes anyway.>>
>
>
>>  [...]
>>  >In addition, the term "blank node" creates a false analogy with RDF.
>>  >An RDF blank node is a node in a graph with no IRI.  A SPARQL blank node
>>  >is not a node at all, it is actually a variable that cannot be named in
>>  >the SELECT list.
>>
>>  We disagree.
>
>That's the sort of place where I like to refer to a recorded
>decision.

Ah, yes, I should do that.

>
>Your message is full of argument that isn't directly supported
>by WG records. That's fine if the WG endorses it...
>
>Meanwhile, I took some similar liberties in my message...
>some of which are arguably wrong.
>
>Hmm... I'll have to think this over.

No, lets stick to protocol, it would be a good discipline to get back 
to. Sorry I squirted this off in 'explain intuition' mode rather than 
'respond official' mode. I will correct in time for Tuesday.

Pat

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