Re: proposal for working on the ontology language (N3 scary)

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote:
[...]
> > On syntax I note that Jim suggested actively using N3. If we wish to do
> > this, we may wish to standardize N3 at the same time, since the current
> > specs are rather loose working documents from TBL and DanC. This could be
> > done similarly to how RDF Core have created n-triple.
> 
> Frankly N3 scares me.  It has this mystique, but there are many differing
> specifications of exactly what it is, and there are no semantics at all for
> some of its constructs.  I suggest not touching N3 with an eleven-foot pole.

N3 scares me too. ;-)

I sure like it as short-hand; it's really hard to
write XML correctly in email and IRC.

But Peter's right that there's no real specification of N3
in traditional logical terms.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 11 December 2001 12:33:56 UTC