Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
Kind of in right vein, but a bit off.
An attribute of syntax X can only be a subtype of an attribute of syntax Y if Y is a more generic syntax. In particular, all abstract values representable in X must be representable in Y.
While both printable string and directory string syntaxes are more generic than country string, directory string is not more generic than printable string. This is because printable string can represent zero length character strings and directory string cannot.
So, what needed, for each syntax, is a list of more generic syntaxes.
Sure. I'm a bit rusty with details of syntaxes, and I got misled by some "printable" 'round which probably referred to "generically being printable" rather than "based on Printable Syntax". I'll rework that.
p.
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