Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

RE getting "a full list of the benefits," surely if it's being
discussed here, "Literals as Subjects" must be *somebody's* Real(tm)
Problem and the benefits are inherent in its solution?

And if it isn't, um, why is it being discussed here? ;)

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeremy, the point is to start the process, but put it on a low burner,
> so that in 4-5 years time, you will be able to sell a whole new RDF+ suite to your customers with this new benefit.  ;-)
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> On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:38, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
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>> I am still not hearing any argument to justify the costs of literals as subjects
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>> I have loads and loads of code, both open source and commercial that assumes throughout that a node in a subject position is not a literal, and a node in a predicate position is a URI node.
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> but is that really correct? Because bnodes can be names for literals, and so you really do have
> literals in subject positions.... No?
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>> Of course, the "correct" thing to do is to allow all three node types in all three positions. (Well four if we take the graph name as well!)
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>> But if we make a change,  all of my code base will need to be checked for this issue.
>> This costs my company maybe $100K (very roughly)
>> No one has even showed me $1K of advantage for this change.
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> I agree, it would be good to get a full list of the benefits.
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>> It is a no brainer not to do the fix even if it is technically correct
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>> Jeremy
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