Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsgate.cistron.nl!transit4.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:20:41 +0100 From: mAsterdam Organization: Pakhuis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: More on lists and sets References: <9OCTf.2923$1U1.813@trndny05> <3HGTf.327990$8T4.10329223@phobos.telenet-ops.be> <1142909951.025198.152310@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1143025188.974407.182210@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1143025188.974407.182210@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4421dbc3$0$11065$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.92.225.151 X-Trace: 1143069635 news.xs4all.nl 11065 [::ffff:82.92.225.151]:35725 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:37553 Jan Hidders wrote: > JOG wrote: > >>Jan Hidders wrote: >>[snip] >> >>>Moreover, integrating lists and bags into a >>>declarative set-oriented language is basically a solved problem as the >>>required ideas, knowledge and experience is already available in the >>>literature, although it is sometimes dressed up as "nested relational", >>>"object-oriented" or "xml" research. >> >>That appears to be some very extreme dressing up (but that's research >>for you). Can you recommend any seminal references for this solved >>issue Jan? > > > Hard to say, because it's a bit scattered and not always recognizable > to the untrained eye. But if I'd have to point to one paper it would > probably be Principles of Programming with Complex Objects and > Collection Types (1995) by Buneman, Naqvi, Tannen and Wong: > > http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/90087.html Wow! Thank you for this excellent reference, Jan, thank you :-)