Re: [xml-dev] Mailmen, POST, Intent, and Duck Typing

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@...>
• Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Mailmen, POST, Intent, and Duck Typing
• From: "Peter Hunsberger" <peter.hunsberger@...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:23:24 -0600
• Cc: "Andrew S. Townley" <andrew.townley@...>, xml-dev@...
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On 2/24/06, Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@...> wrote:
<snip/>
>  What I am still sorting out is if there
> is a clean separation of the pragmatic and the semantic layer.
> I sort of doubt it but I'm still learning.

Sure there is: the pragmatics layer is the set of symbols for which
*everyone* agrees on a single precise meaning.  The semantics layer is
everything else....

(Running and hiding...)

<snip/>
>  The point
> of pragmatics, I guess, is a formal means to establish a protocol
> of measures, aka, "right rock; wrong rock".

I sort of conceptualize it as the rules for how discovery is done on
semantics. Sounds sort of similar?

--
Peter Hunsberger

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