Re: why are properties decoupled from classes

> Maybe you only care about persons which have interests. However, it
> might turn out later that organizations may also have interests. If we
> stick with the domain restriction (1), then every organization which 
> has
> an interest is actually inferred to be a Person.

Fortunately, we can simply construct a new property depicting this new 
meaning of interest, and declare the old one as a subproperty. That 
way, we limit semantic confusion, no?

Chris

Received on Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:06:36 UTC