> > I'm suggesting this so that we completely disabuse ourself of the
> > illusion that we're recreating the notion of attribute vectors.
> 
> Eh?  Why would that be an illusion?

Well for starters you can't create a new class of attributes in a
context/index set/profile. For instance, the concept of modifiers (as
opposed to the list of applicable modifiers) has to be introduced in the
CQL itself rather than in a profile/set

Matthew