Indicators + the database

[Peter Dobcsanyi]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:05:48PM -0400, John P. Morgan wrote:
> Sorry, I don't know if I really get the point. If an indicator is not
> in the ext rep, how does the user know about it? If the user does know
> about it and can use it, for selecting a list of designs say, then why
> should it not be in the external rep?

I agree that it is very legitimate question that why not to add all the
atomic database indicators to the ext-rep indicators too, making the
ext-rep indicators a superset of the database indicators. My reply to
this is that we should strike a balance and not to add "unpopular"
indicators to the ext-rep if the information they carry is also
represented in a more complex subtree, very likely in a
<function-on...>.

--             ,
    Peter Dobcsanyi