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I think we did a fairly good job with proximity in Z39.50.  Why not adopt 
that structure?  (well, not the physical structure, but the set of defining 
terms)

-markh


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Subject: Re: CQL and Marc record fields


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> Maybe the pragmatic approach is to introduce a new boolean, "with",
> which is explicitly defined to nothing more or less than an
> abbreviation of prox/unit=element/distance=0.  Then server
> implementors can tackle "with" free of Proximity Fear.

Please, God, let that be a joke!

I've seen this slippery slope gone down before in the 70's as Dialog and
ORBIT and BRS fought their prox wars, each trying to come up with the
cleverest name for a peculiar kind of proximity.

That slope is never-ending.  Let's don't go there.

Ralph