[Om3] Summary of the Davenport&Kohlhase Proposal

[David Carlisle]

> please explain how much this is breaking.
> I only see this as an expansion but I agree this brings yet another  
> way of writing.

Well it's my TeX heritage telling me that any change will break
something. Since one of the main points of OpenMath is communicating
expressions, making a change for cosmetic reasons that results in no
existing systems being able to process the expression seems like
a bad idea, even if you thought the change was an improvement.

So my adjective "breaking" was probably gratuitous, as "breaking change"
and "change" probably mean the same thing here.


> It allows expressions which, earlier, were disallowed by the schema,  
> to be allowed now.

In other words, making expressions that were authored previously in
error suddenly aquire an unintended meaning and be no longer flagged as
an error.

David


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