- From: Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:43:42 +0100
- To: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@pioneerca.com>
- Cc: "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <reto.bachmann@trialox.org>, "Michael Schneider" <schneid@fzi.de>, "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 20 Mar 2009, at 15:37, Richard H. McCullough wrote: > I have often wondered why RDF doesn't allow lists > to written in the style that is used in programming > languages today: > > [a,b,c,d] > > You can use "list" as a predicate > > X list [a,b,c,d] > > They're easy to parse, easy to read. You can do this in N3: basket contains (chicken cheese yoghurt) . No idea what this talk about rdf lists not being real lists is about, and just being syntactic things. Seems pretty bazaar to me when we have the two relations rdf:first and rdf:next . I don't see why these can't be functional. Henry > Dick McCullough
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