- From: Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:29:05 +0100
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Hi Graham, (second attempt... sorry) On 8/4/11 8:13 AM, Graham Klyne wrote: > My comment was made somewhat on the fly as I was reading the document. I > probably over-reacted in suggesting the use of identifiers was "inappropriate". > > But as I was reading this, I felt that I was being asked to make a shift of > mental perspective when the text started to talk about "identifier scope". For > the purposes of data modelling, I would say that where identifiers are > mentioned, their context of appearance is part of their identity as identifiers > (if that makes sense). Scoping is a *linguistic* technique used to disambiguate > different appearances of the same character string used as as a different > identifier in different contexts. that's a good lecture on scope in programming languages, thanks :-) but the way the term is intended here has to do with the context within which a reference can be resolved, perhaps you would call it "validity" or something else. The point is that identifiers are meant to be local to a group of (related) assertions, and there is no expectation that they can be resolved outside that context. -Paolo
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