- From: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:23:55 +0000
- To: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
- Cc: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On 16 Jan 2008, at 01:21, Guus Schreiber wrote: > > Afterthought about naming: > > broaderTransitive => broaderAncestor > narrowerTransitive => narrowerDescendant > This assumes readers understand the intended difference (a la > XPath) between parent/ancestor and child/descendant. > > Of course, these names need also to be evaluated in terms of the > overall discussion about the broader/narrower names (I have to > think every time I use them; for me the current meaning in > counterintuitive). > > Guus > > PS I also suggest this naming discussion should not hold up > publication of new WD. > I propose that we simply pick some names and use these in the WD with a @@TODO to the effect that the names are provisional (but the pattern is not). Sean -- Sean Bechhofer School of Computer Science University of Manchester sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer
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