- From: Ray Fergerson <fergerson@SMI.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:01:58 -0700
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- CC: rdf interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, Mor Peleg <peleg@SMI.Stanford.EDU>
Graham Klyne wrote: > (b) the lack of clarify about what rdf:Alt means, and the lack of a > compelling prototypical application for it suggests to me that it might be > struck from the core specification. I'd actually prefer to keep it but just remove the implication that the items are "the same" in some unspecified way. It would then map cleanly to the common programming language "enumerated type" concept which has lots of uses. Enumerated types can also modeled as subclasses or instances but sometimes it is just more natural to put some things in a bag and say "pick one". Something like the colors on a stop light can reasonably be modeled in this way rather than introducing a totally artificial "stop_light_color" class. Ray
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