Re: DAML: restricting number of elements in a list

>Ian,
>
>Are you saying that the use of List is restricted to defining DAML 
>itself? Or is it legal for an
>ontology to define a property whose range is daml:List? (I 
>understand now that the items in a
>List are unordered, I just want to find out whether I can use List 
>in my own definitions or not.)

I think the best answer is NO.  Or at any rate, if you do use it, 
there is absolutely no guarantee that what you write will make any 
sense to a DAML reasoner, and it may even have paradoxical 
consequences.

It might have been better, in retrospect, to have used some other 
name than 'daml:List' for this construction, eg 
'daml:PrivateSyntaxConstructionNotForGeneralUse'.

Pat Hayes
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Received on Monday, 18 February 2002 19:42:46 UTC