[MOBY-dev] Primitives as primary input

[Andreas Groscurth]

Thanks to the two of you... /bow

made my world clearer again *g

On Thursday 10 January 2008 17:51, Paul Gordon 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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