- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:12:31 -0500
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>...... >Fortunately there are no users of this construction. (I wonder why?) >Thus the backward compatibility argument is spurious, and we should ask >why there are no users of this construction. > >Two reasons spring to my mind: >+ maybe reification is less useful than was thought >+ the lack of clarity about how to use reification effectively, and >overly confusing syntactic rules act as obstacles to users, >implementators, document writers, documentation writers at all levels. I would appreciate any remarks from anyone on what the intended uses of reification were. What would it be to 'use reification effectively' ? Use it for what? Part of my problem with reification has always been that I am unable to see a single effective use for in it RDF; every suggested use I have seen has seemed to involve a logical or conceptual error of some kind. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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