[MOBY-dev] Primitives as primary input

[Mark Wilkinson]

Yup, me too.

(same for URL...)

M



On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:51:06 -0800, Paul Gordon <gordonp at ucalgary.ca>  
wrote:

> I think the litmus tests would be:
> -might I need to subclass the identifier?
> -would it be useful to associate the identifier with anything besides a  
> base object?
> -is it a subtype of some other identifier?
>
> The answers for email are:
> -no
> -yes (e.g. use it as the namespace for a Person object, which relates  
> oppositely to the data-type argument by Mark)
> -no
>
> Sounds like a namespace to me...
>
> Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>> Hi Andreas!
>>
>> That's a very interesting case!  Is "email" a data-type (Object) or a  
>> semantic-type (Namespace)??  It is a semantic type in the sense that  
>> all email addresses are unique, and therefore behave as identifiers...  
>> but it is often used as a data-type in that it would be associated with  
>> other information like an address and telephone number.
>>
>> Personally I would be tempted to make a new namespace 'emailAddress' or  
>> something like that, since semantic "precision" is the goal of these  
>> two ontologies.
>>
>> What did we do for URLs?  ...LOL!  Okay, I just went to have a look in  
>> the ontologies and we have an Object "URL" and a Namespace "URL"!!!  I  
>> guess others have had the same question and made different decisions  
>> :-)  I see that it is Pieter's services that consume the Object "URL" -  
>> maybe he can explain to us why he chose to make URL an object rather  
>> than a namespace.
>>
>> Pieter?
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:20:11 -0800, Andreas Groscurth  
>> <groscurt at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de> wrote:
>>
>>> And hi again,
>>>
>>> we just had the discussion here... is it recommended to use primitives  
>>> as
>>> primary input ? Or are there actually only for use in secondary  
>>> parameters or
>>> as part of a complex datatype ?
>>>
>>> E.g. if a service requires an email as input - give it an object with
>>> namespace 'email' or similar - or could I use String with namespace  
>>> 'email'
>>>
>>> Thanks and byebye
>>> andreas
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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