AW: [Core] Review Core

So far, I have implemented all required changes and will try to address the editorial ones tomorrow.

 

Here the details:

 

- section 2.3 (Formulas in RIF-Core), first bullet, "Sub-terms that can 
occur inside atomic formulas can be  either...": add lists to the 
enumeration;
 
[Done]
 
- section 2.3 (Formulas in RIF-Core), second bullet, "Equality terms 
cannot occur...": "Equality and membership terms cannot occur...";
 
[Done]
 
- section 2.5 (Well-formed formulas): the second condition, requiring that 
externally defined predicates and functions always occur with the same 
arity, must be removed (per resolution at telecon March 24, 2009);
 
[Done]
 
- section 3 (RIF-Core semantics): Add a sentence to the effect that 
"RIF-Core is also a syntactic subset of RIF-PRD, and the semantics of 
RIF-Core is identical to th eone of RIF-PRD for that subset";
 
[Done]
 
- section 6.1 (Alphabet of RIF-Core): add "INeg" to the list of excluded 
symbols;
 
[Done]
 
- section 6.4 (Annotations in RIF-Core): In any case, remove the last 
sentence ("...no frame formulas..."), which is wrong. But I would remove 
the previous  sentence as well, since RIF-PRD has the same restrictions as 
RIF-Core in this respect.;
 
[Done]
 
- section 6.6 (Rules and groups): In any case, add the conjunction of 
atoms and/or frames as a possibility for the conclusion;. But I would 
replace the first paragraph with a sentence like: "A RIF-Core rule is a 
well-formed RIF-PRD rule with no nested forall, no binding pattern and 
where the action block is a single atom, a single frame, or a conjunction 
of atoms and/or frames". 
 
[Done]

 

 

-Adrian

 

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Von: public-rif-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rif-wg-request@w3.org] Im Auftrag von Christian De Sainte Marie
Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 09:44
An: RIF
Betreff: [Core] Review Core

 


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All, 

Here are my comments on Core, as promised at the last telecon. 

Short story: Core cannot be released as LC without a couple substantial changes (most of them correcting inconsistencies, oversights or obvious mistakes), but no objection after these changes. 

Below, I list, first, the changes that, I believe, are required; then a list of additional, editorial comments: 

1. Required changes 

- section 2.3 (Formulas in RIF-Core), first bullet, "Sub-terms that can occur inside atomic formulas can be  either...": add lists to the enumeration; 

- section 2.3 (Formulas in RIF-Core), second bullet, "Equality terms cannot occur...": "Equality and membership terms cannot occur..."; 

- section 2.5 (Well-formed formulas): the second condition, requiring that externally defined predicates and functions always occur with the same arity, must be removed (per resolution at telecon March 24, 2009); 

- section 3 (RIF-Core semantics): Add a sentence to the effect that "RIF-Core is also a syntactic subset of RIF-PRD, and the semantics of RIF-Core is identical to th eone of RIF-PRD for that subset"; 

- section 6.1 (Alphabet of RIF-Core): add "INeg" to the list of excluded symbols; 

- section 6.4 (Annotations in RIF-Core): In any case, remove the last sentence ("...no frame formulas..."), which is wrong. But I would remove the previous  sentence as well, since RIF-PRD has the same restrictions as RIF-Core in this respect.; 

- section 6.6 (Rules and groups): In any case, add the conjunction of atoms and/or frames as a possibility for the conclusion;. But I would replace the first paragraph with a sentence like: "A RIF-Core rule is a well-formed RIF-PRD rule with no nested forall, no binding pattern and where the action block is a single atom, a single frame, or a conjunction of atoms and/or frames". 

2. Editorial comments: 

- Section 1 (Overview): I wonder if, since Import is part of the normative syntax and semantics, we should not make it explicit, and stress it, that Core includes SWC (and that is true for BLD and PRD as well, of course); 

- Beside my usual rant about the presentation syntax (ask anybody who's not spend about 4 years bickering about the RIF presentation syntax to read the first two sentences of section 2: if they understand that the concrete PS is not normative, they must be very clever - well, if they understand anything at all, that is :-)... 

- Beside my usual rant about the presentation syntax, I said, I suggest that section 3 be renamed "RIF-Core as a specialisation of RIF-BLD", and that section 6 (RIF-Core as a specialisation of RIF-PRD) be moved next to it (that is, to become section 3); 

- I would also move what is currently the first paragraph of section 2 into the overview (esp. if the section is renamed as suggested); 

- talking of section 6 (RIF-Core as a specialisation of RIF-PRD): it might be a good idea to point to the section Interoperability in RIF-PRD [1] 

- Sub-sections 2.6.1 to 2.6.3 seem very detailled wrt the rest of the document, and esp. the normative parts of it. I suggest removing the subsections, mentioning only once the EBNF for RIF-Core presentation syntax is a specialisation of RIF-BLD presentation syntax, and append the three paragraphs about examples 2-4. Btw, the EBNF for the RIF-Core PS is also a specialisation of the EBNF for RIF-PRD PS. 

Cheers, 

Christian 

[1]  <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/PRD> http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/PRD#sec-interoperability 

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