Re: SEM: semantics for current proposal (why R disjoint V?) from Libby Miller on 2002-03-21 (www-webont-wg@w3.org from March 2002)

From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:45:34 +0000 (GMT)
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0203211332380.8326-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

>
> As noted in the design discussions for DAML+OIL, I don't
> see sufficient justification for making V disjoint
> from R.
>
> It seems silly not to be able to talk about the intersection
> of two sets of strings, or UniqueProperty's whose
> range is dates, or whatever.
>

I agree. It's very counter-intuitive to separate them out. I ran into a
lot of problems with this, creating a daml schema for icalendar.

libby

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