Re: RDF Recommendation Set comments (re agenda for 6th April)

At 13:39 06.04.2011, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>On 04/06/2011 05:14 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> > We might want to think about incorporating some version of sameAs
> > into RDFS, as this seems to be fundamental to linked data and also
> > widely misused. Having the real meaning of equality exposed in the
> > RDF standard itself might be doing the world a favor. (?)
>
>+1e99

I think this may be a very bad idea. You would force all languages
layering on top of RDF to include equality. There are reasons
to prevent equality because it turns unification from a syntactical
operation into reasoning.

Dieter 

Received on Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:24:08 UTC