Re: ORDER BY allows expression, SELECT does not

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 19:54 -0500, souripriya.das@oracle.com wrote:
> This has been raised by people and acknowledged in 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2006Jan/0075.html.
> I was wondering what the reasoning was behind this.

I don't think the asymmetry is a conscious design choice.

As I recall, SELECT was designed early on, and ORDER BY
came later. We don't have any requirements for expressions
in select, and aside from the occasional thinking-out-loud
here or there, none of the WG discussions have argued
for a change, so it hasn't been changed.


> Thanks,
> - Souri.
> 
> 
> 
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