Saturday, August 8, 2015

Is this the right use of the word "canonical"?



Anything business comes up with as a requirement might be considered
canonical to our domain model.




Is the word canonical used correctly and what does this sentence actually mean? I think the sentence could be rewritten as:




Anything business comes up with as a requirement might be considered
[inherently] / [automatically] / [implied to be] part of our domain
model.





Does that make sense?



Edit: this sentence comes from the software engineering domain, but it is possible mathematics might covers the same meaning.



Edit2: I think a "canonical domain model" is an IT concept, but then I'm still in unsure of the meaning of canonical here.

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