Re: [ = shortcut

This is indeed a nice feature (that I wish Turtle had, by the way...).

Any reason why it is not supported by EYE?

On 16 June 2022 20:23:11 CEST, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
>Someone asked me to add their WebID to my profile which I wrote in N3 years ago.
>But I could no longer compile it to other formats like rdfxml and Ntriples with
>cwm as that was written for Python 2 and Python 3 is the default on MacBook Pro M1s.
>(See my bug report [1] )
>
>I tried eye but came accross this problem I described in
>https://github.com/josd/eye/issues/42
>
>In short I used the feature of cwm to use 
>
>:a :rel [ = ns:j;
>       foaf:name ”Jos” ] .
>
>as a short-cut for 
>
>:a :rel ns:j .
>ns:j foaf:name ”Jos” .
>
>This makes it nicer to write long foaf files by hand like
>
>:me foaf:knows [ = <https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i>; 
>                    a foaf:Person;
>                    foaf:name "Tim Berners Lee";
>                  ],
>                  [ = <https://my-profile.eu/people/jwinandy/card#me>;
>                    a foaf:Person;
>                    foaf:name "Jonathan Winandy";
>                  ],
>                  [ = <https://my-profile.eu/people/tim/card#me>;
>                    a foaf:Person;
>                    foaf:name "Tim Boudreau" ],
>                  [ = <http://www.turnguard.com/turnguard>;
>                    a foaf:Person;
>                    foaf:name "jakobitsch jürgen";
>                  ] …
>
>Because it avoids me having to link to a URL and not be able
>to see who that refers to without having to search through the whole
>file for additional metadata.
>
>I could not find that feature described in the current n3 spec
>https://w3c.github.io/N3/spec/
>
>But I may just not have read it correctly. 
>In any case I could not get the expected result with eye, but there
>I may also not be using it correctly.
>
>
>Henry Story
>
>[1] https://github.com/linkeddata/swap/issues/3
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