RE: true/false in RDF? from Joshua Allen on 2005-03-17 (semantic-web@w3.org from March 2005)

From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:58:20 -0800
To: "Rich Boakes" <rich.boakes@port.ac.uk>, "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
Cc: "Seth Russell" <russell.seth@gmail.com>, <semantic-web@w3.org>
Message-ID: <0E36FD96D96FCA4AA8E8F2D199320E5204884014@RED-MSG-43.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

> The fact that the page is cached is not a
> property of the page, so describing it as such
> in the model is (IMO) a bad thing, that's the
> pollution I try and avoid.

Isn't it even worse to describe being cached as part of the object's
nature (it's class)?  Normally class is used to encapsulate those
properties of an object which are "fixed" parts of its basic nature.
Cached or not is a variable state.

Received on Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:58:25 UTC