- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:00:05 +0000
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 05:15 PM 11/9/02 +0000, Brian McBride wrote: >I've got a problem with how I'm thinking about lists. I first came across >it reviewing the primer, but I've got the same problem in schema. > >We say that the domain of rdf:first is rdf:List. > >My problem is whether the resource at the blunt end of an rdf:first >property denotes (ok we are not doing the semantics but this is just about >how I should think of this) a whole list, or just a link in a chain? I've >been thinking of it as a link in a chain, and so the term rdf:List is >misleading. But if it really denotes the whole list then there is nothing >for me to worry about. As it stands, I think it denotes just the "link", which (if the graph is true) happens to be related by rdf:rest to the next link in the list. I guess the name is misleading; I'm agnostic about changing it. #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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