[sc34wg3] CTM - pre-Kyoto vs. post-Kyoto comparison

Lars Heuer heuer at semagia.com
Tue Jan 29 10:31:43 EST 2008


Hi Prof. Lee,

[...]
> As I read through the comparison list  at
> <http://www.semagia.com/tmp/ctm-comparison.html>, toward the end of the
> list, that is, toward the REAL cases, I was convinced that explicit
> delimiters "{ ; }" make sense. 

Aside from the "{" "}": Do you think that ";" makes sense? I guess you
can read the left hand side of use case 3.3.14. without problems.

Maybe the formatting gives the impression that an end-of-line-delimiter
is meaningful in the left hand side (pre-Kyoto): It is not, as the
following (valid) example shows:

   a)
   paul isa person - "Paul McCartney" homepage: http://www.... .

Yes, this example looks ugly, but does the semicolon change anything?

   b)
   paul { isa person; - "Paul McCartney"; homepage http://www.... ; }

I guess not. It is still ugly and you have to add semicolons
everywhere.

I'd think that (a) is even friendlier since the colon after "homepage"
indicates that the following IRI belongs to "homepage". This
indication is missing from (b).
   
Best regards,
Lars
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