- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:18:50 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- cc: www-rdf-comments <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > There are many many langauge which use character > strings as primitives, and no others I know that use (lang, string) pairs. > So convergence with other langues, and APIs for RDF in those langauges, and > so on, > are made much more cumbersome > for RDF by the existence of these literals. By extension, since many languages have other primitive types (particularly numeric ones), should we be doing something about the cumbersome "everything's a string" attitude? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Ever see something and think, "I've gotta leverage me some of that?" Odds are, you were looking at a synergy and didn't even know it.
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