- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:25:01 -0600
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>At 12:27 PM 2/20/02 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote: >>Well, I half-agree, but we can't have all three things at once: >> >>1. You and Graham want range-sensitive inline literals. >>2. Dan C. wants an inline literal used with no datatyping to >>unambiguously denote a character string. >>3. We all want the logic to be monotonic. >> >>Something has to give. > >Didn't the S proposal achieve all that? No proposal can possibly achieve all that. Regardless of semantic ingenuity, those three are a logical contradiction by themselves. The *spec* is a contradiction, so theres no point trying to meet it. 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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