- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:07:10 -0500
- To: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: "www-rdf-comments" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>, "w3c-rdfcore-wg" <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org> Cc: "www-rdf-comments" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>; "w3c-rdfcore-wg" <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:18 AM Subject: Re: Proposed NTriples changes for literal notation > 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. Tim > -- > 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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