- From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:07:54 +0200
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- CC: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@inf.unibz.it>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
Sandro Hawke wrote: > I'm starting to think that the question "does RIF have semantics" is not > well formed. Perhaps each particular RIF dialect will have a formal > syntax and a formal semantics, and RIF on the whole will just be some > XML packaging machinery (corresponding to the RIFRAF ontology). > The "sevaral semantics" approach is in opposition to the "no semantics approach". It is not unusual for a programming language to allow for semantic variations. > Hopefully there can be many modules shared between dialects, where both > the syntax and semantics are shared. I'm not sure if it'll ever make > sense to share syntax but not semantics for some part of a language. > Agreed! Francois
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