From: Ian Horrocks (horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: 11/09/01
On November 8, Deborah McGuinness writes: > fine - then from a wg perspective, it is a slippery slope to start putting "foo"s > in the core. Sorry that my "tricky" way to express what Jeff wanted caused such controversy. I agree that we can't expect average users to use this kind of trick. As I have said before, I believe the answer is not to add to the core language, but to develop tools/"higher-level" languages that generate the appropriate core language. Ian > > d > > Jim Hendler wrote: > > > At 4:39 PM -0800 11/8/01, Deborah McGuinness wrote: > > >that is doable. > > >there will be a number of daml:foo s and they will have a lot of arguments > > >and a lot of implications thus the english description of them will not be > > >compact but doable. > > > > > >I guess then i should add a request to what i said people might send me - a > > >proposed daml syntax for the new request as well. > > >i am not expecting any one person to send everything but eventually we want > > >to fill in the template. > > > > > >And on the notion of DAML+OIL layers, I would claim that we will put the > > >daml:foos in a non-core layer. > > >While we at stanford will want to update our daml parsers to understand the > > >fancy foo's we dont want to break all of the existing tools every time we > > >add a new foo. > > >while the daml+oil core may find a fair amount of stability, i expect the > > >foos to keep growing. > > > > > >d > > > > from a joint committee perspective that's fine. From a WG > > perspective, we are trying to finalize a proposal - I don't think we > > will propose layers, unless there is a compelling reason to do so. > > What we are trying to propose is the core. > > -- > > Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu > > Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 > > Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) > > AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 > > http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler > > -- > Deborah L. McGuinness > Knowledge Systems Laboratory > Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 > Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 > email: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu > URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm > (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) 801 705 > 0941 > >
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