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- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 07:51:41 -0400
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[freed from spam trap -rrs] Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010905115233.039eb630@joy.songbird.com> X-Sender: gk-work@joy.songbird.com Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 07:06:50 -0400 (EDT) To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu> From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com> Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org At 04:17 PM 9/4/01 -0700, pat hayes wrote: >>For the same reason that C programming books mention printf(). >>Yes, everybody could develop their own print routine >>in vanilla C, but it's cost-effective for the community >>to agree on a standard library of terms sometimes. > >Well then let us refer to it in that way, ie as part of a 'standard >library', rather than as part of the core language itself. Right now, as I >understand it, an RDF engine that did not handle containers in a >particular way would not be in conformance to the M&S spec. I, for one, very much favour this approach. #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne Baltimore Technologies Strategic Research Content Security Group <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com> <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <http://www.baltimore.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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