- From: Paul Gearon <gearon@ieee.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:05:43 -0500
- To: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com> wrote: > On 13 Nov 2009, at 13:01, Andy Seaborne wrote: > >> I don't find the name COALESCE very helpful. >> >> None of these seem good but they are better to me: >> >> VAL >> VALUE >> FIRST >> FIRST_VAL >> PROTECT >> SAFE > > None of these float my boat, but out of interest, what's the source of your > dislike for COALESCE? I find it pretty obvious, but then I've been using SQL > for too long. Personally, I'd never heard of this function, and it's been completely opaque to me. I've come back to it a few times now (each time after a break of a couple of weeks) and every time I've had to look up some documentation to remind myself of what it meant. But then, I haven't used SQL much in recent years. Regards, Paul Gearon
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