Re: TMQL: Direct (super|sub)types?

Lars,

wasn't it you who introduced this in TMAPI and just called it getTypes()?
It didn't even offer the TMDM functionality of transitivity there, or did it?

Benjamin

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Lars Heuer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Rani,
>
>> A simple use case will be just to provide a graphical visualization of
>> the hierarchies in the topic map.
> [...]
>> Or maybe, you prefer to avoid from having "direct-supertypes" and
>> "direct-subtypes" in TMQL because we can always use association pattern
>> as an alternative:
>
> I see. Well, I find the term "direct-" awkward. TMQL introduces a
> terminology which does not exist outside of TMQL (neither in TMDM nor
> TMRM nor (to my knowledge) in any other knowledge representation
> system) and I wonder if the mentioned use cases are common enough to
> satisfy a shortcut in TMQL. I guess my answer would be "no" and I
> wouldn't make these axes/paths first class citizens in TMQL.
>
> Best regards,
> Lars
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