- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:10:37 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 16:44 13/02/2002 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: >>>>rdfms-seq-representation: The ordinal property representation of >>>>containers does not support recursive processing of containers in >>>>languages such as Prolog. >>>>[...] > >If anyone objects that its hard to know how many items there are in the >container, then tell them that if they object to finding that out by a >recursive search, they shouldn't be using Prolog in the first place. > >I think we should just make this an official RDF non-issue. As expressed, I would agree with that sentiment; its hard for me to accept that the idiosyncracies of a particular programming language should have much to do with what we do. However, I think the real issue here is not about programming languages, its about representing closure. I think (DanC please confirm, you raised this), that the question is "How do I represent the fact that there are no more members of this container after rdf:_nnn". I rather like your end marker technique Pat. Brian
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