- From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:41:15 -0400
- To: Jos de Bruijn <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
- Cc: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "Public-Rif-Wg (E-mail)" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
> > This has two problems. First, we have a uniform syntax for all data types,
> > which is "..."^^type, and I see no reason to break this. This ('lexical'@lang)
> > *could* be considered a shorthand for "lexical@lang"^^text, but then it
> > does not avoid the encoding problem.
>
> The real issue is that the lexical space of a datatype is a set of
> character sequences, so we indeed cannot avoid the encoding problem.
>
> Best, Jos
Yes, you are right about the necessity of encoding. I thought Dave was
referring to the elegance (or lack of it) of the presentation syntax.
--michael
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