Re: wrong name for exactly one

That's a reasonable name.

peter

On 02/15/2017 03:37 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
> The WG has decided to rename sh:xor to sh:xone, as a shortcut for "exactly one".
> 
> Holger
> 
> 
> On 15/02/2017 3:14, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> If there has to be an explanation that the name chosen for something means
>> something else everywhere else, then the wrong name has been chosen.
>>
>> >From 4.6.4 sh:xor
>> "Note that despite the name, the semantics of sh:xor for cases with 3 or more
>> shapes are different from an exclusive or in the mathematical sense. The
>> general definition of exclusive or makes it true only when an odd number of
>> inputs are true, while the SHACL definition of sh:xor relies on exactly one
>> semantics."
>>
>>
>> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>> Nuance Communications
>>
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