Re: PROV-ISSUE-354 (all-or-nothing-for-optional-arguments): Adopt an all-or-nothing approach to optional positional arguments [prov-n]

This issue has been addressed by editorial changes to PROV-N, adopted as suggested below.  This decreases ambiguity so I'm closing the issue.

--James

On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:

> PROV-ISSUE-354 (all-or-nothing-for-optional-arguments): Adopt an all-or-nothing approach to optional positional arguments [prov-n]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/354
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> Raised by: James Cheney
> On product: prov-n
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>> However, the grammar may not be systematic enough (a comment that Paolo made).
>> Also, for instance, it forces us to have t or - for time in generation.
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> Treating the "positional" optional arguments in the all-or-nothing way (which wasDerivedFrom and others already do) would fix this, while allowing short forms of wasGeneratedBy and friends.  Right now, they are treated in an "all-or-all" way that seems incompatible with many examples
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