- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:59:38 +0100
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com>
- Cc: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Marginal preference for the latter, as it's visually more like OPTIONAL, which is a close relative of MINUS.
- Steve
On 2010-03-31, at 09:13, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> Should the syntax of MINUS be like UNION with {} on the left-hand side
>
> { { ?s a foaf:Person
> ?s foaf:name ?name
> }
> MINUS
> { ?s foaf:knows ?other }
> }
>
> or without:
>
> { ?s a foaf:Person .
> ?s foaf:name ?name .
> MINUS { ?s foaf:name ?name }
> }
>
> Either works from a grammar point of view.
>
> Andy
>
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