- From: Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:33:07 +0100
- To: timbl@w3.org
- Cc: ""Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, ""www-rdf-comments" <www-rdf-comments" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>, ""w3c-rdfcore-wg" <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? > > I have to admit it would make sense to me. there is still 'immediate addressing' per rfc2397 although I think that <data:;nl-be,mooi> is not allowed :-( -- Jos De Roo
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