Re: Blank nodes must DIE! [ was Re: Blank nodes semantics - existential variables?] from Thomas Passin on 2020-07-08 (semantic-web@w3.org from July 2020)

From: Thomas Passin <tpassin@tompassin.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 17:39:10 -0400
To: Nathan Rixham <nathan@webr3.org>
Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Message-ID: <177f2337-3fe6-56fa-bd79-87ed7bdec6fa@tompassin.net>

On 7/8/2020 5:32 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 10:20 PM Thomas Passin <tpassin@tompassin.net 
> <mailto:tpassin@tompassin.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Where the question could have some interest is if a particular literal
>     could have a canonical and a non-canonical form;  Now the question of
>     whether they are "identical" might have some significance.  That might
>     come up in encryption, for example.  But in these cases we're talking
>     about two literal forms that are not, on their face, identical, but
>     that
>     might resolve to the same canonical value.
> 
> 
> It has come up multiple times, considering things equivalent for a 
> purpose is not the same as them being identical.
> 

Just so.

Received on Wednesday, 8 July 2020 21:39:27 UTC