Le 25-sept.-08 à 11:14, Jan Willem Knopper a écrit :

Chris Rowley wrote:
I would assume a rel b rel c is almost the same as a rel b and b rel c
(where rel is a relation).
I would claim that it is EXACTLY the same (and therefore redundant). I do
not know where it conveys different information, and if it does, it
certainly needs documenting, so Michael's "making them n-ary" doesn't
work.
...
As I said, I'm not sure I understand why you would want the SEMANTICS of
this, as I am not sure what they are.
You have convinced me.

There are no obvious semantics differences here, and I am not sure
enough that I actually need anything like the semantics of a formula
manipulation.

I think the ball is on your side Jan Willem... many users and user- guides (e.g. teachers) will want something to look like a<b<c and other such...

- how are you going to offer this to users ? (e.g. wiris input editor does it by reparsing the mathml-p) - how are you going to express the underlying OpenMath (as above I suppose)

I think the first question is crucial and needs an elaborate answer much further than "just apply this symbol here" as is done with most "simple application symbols".
It probably is a general issue of binary operators.

paul

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