[tmql-wg] Proposed changes to existing requirements

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Lars Marius Garshol
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| In other words, in my mind the TMQL work has this implicit
| requirement:
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|   "TMQL shall make as few assumptions about the context within which
|   it is being used as possible. All interactions with its
|   environment must be clearly defined in general and abstract
|   terms."

* Robert Barta
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| This feels more like a general engineering principle to me. Ockam's
| razor.

Agreed, but I do get the feeling I have to repeat it over and over
again in discussions on this list.

 
* Lars Marius Garshol
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| Do you think we should? Isn't it better to make sure that the core
| language allows you to do this by adding some extra candy on top?
 
* Robert Barta
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| My current thinking is that this sounds like a separate document:
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|    "Topic Map Expressions, A functional approach to TM engineering"
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| Something like this.

Sounds like we agree, then.

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