Re: in...of syntax Re: Turtle Last Call: Request for Review

Ivan Herman wrote:
> (Sorry for the late reaction, I was on vacations...)
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> The ^P formalism and syntax is already part of the SPARQL 1.1 query language, part of the property path features. Ie, if adopted in Turtle, it would not create any compatibility problems with SPARQL 1.1 (which would not be the case with the 'is ... of' syntax).
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> RDFa has the @rev attribute that is used for the same purpose. In my own practice @rev is not used very often; however, when it is, it is damn useful, that is for sure...
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> _Personally_, I would be in favour adding ^P to Turtle.

+1

> Caveat: if we do that, Turtle would have to go through a second last call. Sigh...

Is that not the point of last call? Also, it could have been avoided if 
it was considered fully back in march '11 when first raised.

> On Jul 18, 2012, at 15:02 , Souripriya Das wrote:
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>> I too would prefer the use of ^P (to indicate opposite direction of edge) than use of "is P of" for the same reasons that Dan cited.
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>> Thanks,
>> - Souri.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: steve.harris@garlik.com
>> To: danbri@danbri.org
>> Cc: public-rdf-comments@w3.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:44:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: in...of syntax Re: Turtle Last Call: Request for Review
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>> On 2012-07-18, at 12:27, Dan Brickley wrote:
>> …snip…
>>>> A massive +1. Having been burned by that in the past, it is indeed a very good argument for it.
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>>>> The argument about generating Turtle data from pre-existing hashes is also a very good one. I've written a few of these 'RDFizers' in the past, just recursively going through a hash and outputting a string that happens to be valid Turtle (see https://github.com/moustaki/bbc-serialiser for example, which is currently in use on a few BBC websites) - and having a way to write triples in both directions make that a *lot* easier...
>>> If (a) it could be done identically in SPARQL 1.1 and Turtle (b) it
>>> was done with punctuation (e.g. ^) rather than pseudo-English, i'd be
>>> supportive.
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>>> (Is 'is isPrimaryTopicOf of' the same as 'primaryTopic'? The existence
>>> of isPrimaryTopicOf is a good reason for exploring such a design...)
>>>
>>> Every difference we create between SPARQL and Turtle diminishes the
>>> value and teachability of both…
>> +1
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>> - Steve
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