RE: agenda 27 Feb telecon

On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:54 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
 
> On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Peter Patel-Schneider wrote:
>
> > 2/ "Fix" datatypes, allowing other datatypes that have language tags
> (but no RDF syntax would permit them).  This makes rdf:langString a
> regular datatype. This would allow, for example, internationalized
> numerics, i.e., "123,1"@fr^^xsd:decimal.  (Well maybe not using
> xsd:decimal, but you get the idea.)
> 
> I like this, and argued for it, but got strong pushback from Richard. I
> don't think it is worth re-opening that debate.  (I see no reason why
> we should not allow literals of arbitrary complexity, perhaps with more
> than two strings.  ...

+1


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