RE: Relationships, context WAS: (SWAG: Re: & kindaLike that too)AND(RE: &)

[Manos Batsis <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]

> >:x synonumTo :y .
> 
> This is neither meant as joke or criticism, because there's a couple 
> of very good conditional concepts in here, so: Is this just a typo, 
> meaning to actually state:
> 
> :x synonymTo:y ?
> 
> or is the term synonum actually a contraction of synonym and sum so 
> that it is a coined mathematical term meaning an equivalent numerical 
> value comparing say a percent and a fraction that yields an 
> irrational or unique quotient? This would be an odd place to 
> introduce a new math concept, but the concept has several useful 
> purposes i could think of.

synonymTo just states that :x has the same meaning with :y. It has
nothing to do with math (the way I see it) and makes no assumptions on
the... um... resource datatype? (ok I'm kindaLike loosing it).

*If* I understand you correctly though (sometimes English and math seems
Greek to me ;-) it could work the way you point out, but I still see it
like a side effect, as the association does not become established
directly (meaning mathematical) but semantically. Now, if we see
synonymTo as a kind of equality, then it is an equality that doesn't
exist; instead we just tell an application to treat x AS IF it where
equal to y.

I don't know if I have answered your question. Maybe you could provide
an example or two?

Kindest regards,

Manos