- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:48:49 +0200
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On 2002-01-28 16:31, "ext Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org> wrote: > Tcl has one datatype: strings. > Perl has one (relevant) datatype: scalars. > > I suggest that RDF can do likewise. (see S, idiom B, > for details). The TCL/PL approach strikes me as having no datatyping in RDF -- but leaving all datatype interpretation to the application level. Fine. That's certainly an option. To leave RDF as it is, with no datatyping -- beyond saying that literals are Unicode strings -- and let applications and other standards address it; but I fear that that will have a significant impact on the utility of RDF for broad global interchange of knowledge. Cheers, Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 50 483 9453 Senior Research Scientist Fax: +358 7180 35409 Nokia Research Center Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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