- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:24:02 -0700
- To: "Solbrig, Harold R." <Solbrig.Harold@mayo.edu>, "public-rdf-shapes@w3.org" <public-rdf-shapes@w3.org>
- CC: Jim Davies <jim.davies@cs.ox.ac.uk>
Doesn't this cause an infinite loop on cyclic rules when there are cycles in the RDF graph? Consider, for example schema: <FooShape> { :patron <FooShape> } data: <Foo> :patron <Foo> . peter On 07/10/2014 11:32 AM, Solbrig, Harold R. wrote: > Peter, > > Z cannot fully represent complete cycles. We have included a partially > defined function (evalRule¹) in section 4 that is declared (informally) to > be equivalent to evalRule. The cycle described in the primer is realized > by the evalTermReference > (http://www.w3.org/Submission/2014/SUBM-shex-defn-20140602/#x1-170004.1). > > Cheers, > > Harold Solbrig > > > > On 7/10/14, 11:20 AM, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The Shape Expressions 1.0 Primer, >> http://www.w3.org/Submission/shex-primer/, >> mentions cyclic rules, but there is no discussion of cyclic rules in the >> Shape >> Expressions 1.0 Definition, http://www.w3.org/Submission/shex-defn/. >> >> I was trying to puzzle through how cyclic rules would work. It appears >> that >> they depend on how recursive definitions work in Z. Can anyone tell me >> how >> recursive definitions work in Z, so that I don't have to do an in-depth >> analysis of Z? >> >> Thanks, >> >> peter >> > >
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