- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:33:52 +0200
- To: Natasha Noy <noy@SMI.Stanford.EDU>
- CC: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
Natasha Noy wrote: > Actually, I think it is more awkward. Having Simba both as an instance > and a subclass of Animal is awkward at best. In some, very rare, > circumstances, you could argue that that's what you want (in fact, I've > done that myself [1]), but it complicates things significantly, and > probably shouldn't be done unless you absolutely have to. It may complicate things from a theoretical point of view, but I would argue that it solves the problem with a minimum amount of triples, and without creating a maintenance problem or loosing expressive power. Looks like we are heading for a computer science versa software engineering discussion :-)
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