Re: quick comment on typed literals

Hmmm... when I stumbled across that niggle, I wondered if you might not 
introduce some "bottom" concept into the domain of interpretation, so even 
invalid lexical forms have a denotation.

#g
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At 06:36 PM 11/6/02 -0600, pat hayes wrote:

>In case anyone was wondering, the reason that the inference
>
>aaa bbb "foo"^^ddd .
>-->
>aaa bbb _:xxx .
>_:xxx rdf:type ddd .
>
>didnt get put into RDFS (but was left until the datatypes were introduced) 
>is because, contrary to what I first thought, this inference DOES depend 
>on access to datatype information, in order to check that 'foo' is a legal 
>lexical form according to the datatype ddd.  So even though it doesnt 
>depend on the particular value, it does need external datatype information 
>to be valid.
>
>Just a quick explanation.
>
>Also, after Jos' question I guess I ought to either remove that comment or 
>else put in a bit more explanation. Sigh.
>
>Pat
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