Re: ISSUE-77: Should we mark rdf:Seq as archaic (cf ISSUE-24)

On Oct 15, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Ian Davis wrote:

> On 15 Oct 2011, at 19:35, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 15/10/11 19:09, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think both the Seq and the List constructs present technical issues.
>>> Basically it is because both present the possibility of 'bad' data and
>>> no clarity about what one should do in the face of it.
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>>> We can easily form ill-formed lists with rdf:first or rdf:rest either
>>> missing or multiple.
>>> We can easily form ill-formed sequences with duplicate or missing rdf:_2
>> 
>> although Seq are very fragile and lists are merely fragile.  The duplicate rdf:_2 by merging is really nasty.
>> 
> 
> I consider that a feature not a bug. There are times when you want to
> rank things equally in a list. Its not that hard to handle in code
> with nested loops.
> 

I have slowly come to understand that any bug is someone else's feature. 

Pat
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