- From: Gary Hallmark <gary.hallmark@oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:15:21 -0700
- To: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu
- CC: Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>, "Public-Rif-Wg (E-mail)" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Because DTB defines no external frames, this feature is not usable in "strict BLD mode", right? Michael Kifer wrote: > The purpose of using external frames is exactly the same as that of using > external predicates. It is just a different interface. It can be provided for > external objects, while external predicates is an interface for the regular > (non-object-oriented) builtin calls. > > I would like to better understand what you and Christian had in mind. From the > F2F I understood that csma had right understanding of the purpose of that > feature. If the added wording is not what he expected then maybe it can be > improved (once I understand what is confusing there). > > > --michael > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:05:10 -0400 > Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Christian and I read the new text explaining external frames in BLD >> [http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/BLD#Terms] and although we each had a >> different understanding of what external frames were, it matched neither, which >> is problematic. >> >> Given the time constraints I think the only choice is to leave that text as is >> but label it at-risk for last call & open an issue. Then we can discuss it >> further during the summer. We hope to propose and resolve that quickly - I >> specifically don't want to get dragged into a lengthy discussion of what >> external frames are, just a quick decision to label at risk so we can publish, >> and we'll have the lengthy discussion later. >> >> -Chris >> >> > >
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