- From: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:41:25 +0600
- To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "Ken MacLeod" <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
Slipping in a word like this is very crafty, a way of affecting the language in subliminal ways (see Hidden Persuaders [1]). Personally I like the term - dereference sounds clunky, there's a certain (appropriate) dynamism to 'vance'. If there isn't one already a little page giving it a fairly rigid definition might be useful, to avoid future vance/prance controversy. [1] http://www.salon.com/media/media961217.html --- Danny Ayers http://www.isacat.net <- -----Original Message----- <- From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org <- [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Seth Russell <- Sent: 13 April 2001 21:20 <- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org; Ken MacLeod <- Subject: Vance <- <- <- From: "Ken MacLeod" <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us> <- <- > "Lee Jonas" <ljonas@acm.org> writes: <- > <- > > You don't have to overload an identifier to vance a web page <- containing <- > <- > Where does the term "vance" come from? I can't find a reference. I <- > assume since the words "access" or "retrieve" are not being used, that <- > "vance" has a slightly different meaning than those. <- <- I coined it:) It means to move your attention from an arrow to it's <- object. <- <- before vance: <- <- attention <- | <- | <- ------------------------> (object) <- <- after vance: <- <- attention <- | <- | <- ------------------------> (object) <- <- It would be a method on the attention object. Note the conceptual <- similarities to dereference. <- <- Seth <- <- <-
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