Re: bNodes and properties

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:00:13PM +0200, Jeen Broekstra wrote:
> Another, somewhat related, beef I have with the current syntax is that 
> it allows the use of blank node labels (_:a) as variables. This is not 
> only redundant, but confusing as heck since undoubtedly people will 
> misread this as being a blank node label occurring in the queried 
> source (instead of a variable name). Is there a strong argument 
> against simply removing this feature from SPARQL?

Yeah, without that you can't do the data-as-query trick.

- Steve