Hi all,
Am 17.12.2004 um 20:41 schrieb Murray Altheim:
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With the release of Ceryle recently the presence of its variant
syntax on LTM 1.2 might be noted as a proposal for 1.3 (I think
I've mentioned this one before). It's a simple additional shorthand
to mirror the colon (':') character, only to perform this for the
XTM 1.0 superclass-subclass association using a semicolon (';')
character, e.g.:
[human ; mammal]
meaning 'human' is a subclass of the superclass 'mammal'.
hm, just a quick thought on the readability of this syntax: colon and
semicolon look so much alike, that I don't think it's a good idea to
use them in complementary distribution. Not only do they look almost
the same, but they are also located right next to each other on the
keyboard (well, that depends on the locale...), making this syntax
prone to typos. Wouldn't an easier distinguishable character (e.g. '<')
make life easier?
Apart from that, I would say a shorthand for superclass-subclass is a
great idea.
Cheers,
Knud
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Knud Möller, MA
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Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
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