• To: 'Jeff Lowery' <jlowery@s...>, 'Gavin Thomas Nicol' <gtn@r...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:47:55 -0600
• Cc: 'Nicolas LEHUEN' <nicolas.lehuen@u...>

Ok, so let me muddy the waters again.  From the Free Online Dictionary of Computing

http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?standards

"standard semantics

The standard interpretation of a term in some language yields the term's standard denotational semantics, i.e. its "meaning". This is usually given by a semantic function which maps a term in the abstract syntax to a point in some domain. The domain is the interpretation of the term's type. The semantic function also takes an environment - a function which maps the free variables of the term to their meaning. We say that a domain point "denotes", or "is the denotation of", a term. A non-standard semantics results from some other interpretation, e.g. an abstract interpretation."

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...]

I just read Pete's posting after writing up my own (cf. "A conceptual
excursion"). I sense a convergence of some sort occurring....

On xml-dev???!??!!!? Can't be.

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