- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:56:51 -0500
- To: Ian Davis <id@talis.com>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, "public-rdf-wg@w3.org" <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On Oct 15, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Ian Davis wrote: > On 15 Oct 2011, at 19:35, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 15/10/11 19:09, Jeremy Carroll wrote: >>> >>> I think both the Seq and the List constructs present technical issues. >>> Basically it is because both present the possibility of 'bad' data and >>> no clarity about what one should do in the face of it. >> >> +1 >> >>> We can easily form ill-formed lists with rdf:first or rdf:rest either >>> missing or multiple. >>> We can easily form ill-formed sequences with duplicate or missing rdf:_2 >> >> although Seq are very fragile and lists are merely fragile. The duplicate rdf:_2 by merging is really nasty. >> > > I consider that a feature not a bug. There are times when you want to > rank things equally in a list. Its not that hard to handle in code > with nested loops. > I have slowly come to understand that any bug is someone else's feature. Pat ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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