On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Matthew Dovey wrote: > Could these relations be generalised Yes > and defined in a generic utility set? No ;) I like 'contains' for encloses, so I guess I like 'containedBy' for within. Does Mike have a saves-on-typing suggestion? Rob > encloses Data is range, term is point/range > within Data is point, term is range > /partial -- ,'/:. Rob Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 ,'---/::::::::::. Twin Cathedrals: telnet: liverpool.o-r-g.org 7777 ____/:::::::::::::. WWW: http://liverpool.o-r-g.org:8000/ I L L U M I N A T I