Re: monotonicity [was: Re: On Consensus]

[Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 40) 801 9690, patrick.stickler@nokia.com]


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ext Jos De_Roo" <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
To: "Brian McBride <bwm" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Cc: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>; <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>; <w3c-rdfcore-wg-request@w3.org>
Sent: 25 September, 2002 12:44
Subject: Re: monotonicity [was: Re: On Consensus]


> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 3) I think we demonstrated before that nonmon can be avoided with tidy
> > semantics if we introduce another property.  Now before I get jumped on
> > from a great height, I think we have accepted that the user community
> don't
> > want to introduce multiple properties into their schemas.  I'm not
> > suggesting that.
> >
> > But, when an application gets the bitsPerPixel property value as a string
> 
> > and converts it to an integer, we could think of that as creating a new
> > property with a new value:
> >
> >     _:s <bitsPerPixelAsInteger> xsd:int"8" .
> >
> > I think that would be monotonic.
> 
> I think so too, and I really like your
> reasoning, go on and we find it

Please, could we not open that issue again. It has been proposed and
rejected numerous times. Let it die.

Patrick

Received on Wednesday, 25 September 2002 06:57:28 UTC