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Stefan Haustein wrote: > > > The problem would arise in OOP forms where namespace structure is > > orthogonal to class structure. CLOS, for instance, is a oo-language in > > which slot inheritance is governed by rules for identifying names which > > are independant of the class inheritance structure. Names (symbols) are > > in packages and inheritance relations may be constructed among packages > > without regard to where the names appear. > > So we have less problems for serializing a Lisp extension versus > more problems for Smalltalk, Delphi, C++, JAVA.... > > I do not think that will help RDF becoming widely used. > I'm not marketing. The request was for an example. CLOS is one. Perchance. The underlying reason is that it (perchance) adheres to the principal of orthogonality at a place where RDF does also. In general orthogonality is to be admired rathern than admonished. Especially in a representation language which sets generality and extensibility as one of its goals. ... *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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