Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-04 Thread Jeremy Carroll
On 7/1/2010 8:44 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: Jeremy, your argument is perfectly sound from your company's POV, but not from a broader perspective. Of course, any change will incur costs by those who have based their assumptions upon no change happening I was asking for the economic benefit of the ch

RE: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-04 Thread Michael Schneider
On Behalf Of Nathan wrote on Friday, July 02: >Pat Hayes wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: >>> "A literal may be the object of an RDF statement, but not the subject >>> or the predicate." >> >> Just to clarify, this is a purely syntactic restriction. Allowing >> literals i

RE: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-04 Thread Michael Schneider
Henry Story wrote: >So just as a matter of interest, imagine a new syntax came along that >allowed literals in >subject position, could you not write a serialiser for it that turned > >"123" length 3 . > >Into > >_:b owl:sameAs "123"; > length 3. But this is not an equivalent translation in RDF