[Developers] [Data-modeling] is everyone married to themselves?
John Giannandrea
jg at metaweb.com
Mon Dec 17 20:08:50 UTC 2007
David Huynh wrote:
> Might this be too limiting for building generic UIs for browsing
> arbitrary social networks? Many social relationships are symmetric
> (sibling, neighbor, friend, coworker, enemy, competitor, roommate,
> officemate, wingman, companion, ...).
I think some people would debate if all relationships are as symmetric
as they appear.
But I agree that better support in MQL for eliminating self from sub-
clauses would be desirable. Its on the list of things being
considered for future versions.
For now the workaround is to remove self from the result set. This is
what the freebase UI does.
-jg
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