- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:52:15 -0700
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny@panlanka.net>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "Ken MacLeod" <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
Actually it comes from the English word "advance", meaning to go forward. And I should revise my definiton just slightly. Vance - means to change an attention object, which is pointing at an arrow, to point to that to that to which the arrow points. thanks for your support :)) Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Ayers" <danny@panlanka.net> To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>; <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>; "Ken MacLeod" <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:41 AM Subject: RE: Vance > 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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