Proposal to close ISSUE-76 stating that execution order matters from Holger Knublauch on 2015-07-28 (public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org from July 2015)

From: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:27:12 +1000
To: RDF Data Shapes Working Group <public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <55B6CC60.1040400@topquadrant.com>

ISSUE-76 [1] is about whether the order of AND and OR operands should 
matter. I believe the order should matter, because this is how most 
computer languages work and therefore matches the expectation that users 
can put the most restrictive operands first to avoid unnecessary 
evaluations. It also helps produce consistent results in the face of 
errors. sh:AndConstraint and sh:OrConstraint use rdf:Lists for that reason.

Holger

[1] http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/track/issues/76

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