- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:06:48 +0100
- To: public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
On 09/05/12 15:27, Polleres, Axel wrote:
> I havea a question on in-scope variables and BIND, particularly, on item
> 12. in
> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/query-1.1/rq25.xml#sparqlGrammar
> # " The variable assigned in a |BIND| clause must not be already in-scope
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope>.
> "
> I am not sure here, what "already" in-scope means. Can we clarify that?
Do you have suggestions? (I note the definition is based on your
suggestions)
> Particularly, when reading the in-scope definition, I am a bit unsure of
> what happens
> with regards to e.g. UNION queries, i.e. my feeling is that
> SELECT *
> {
> { BIND (1 AS ?Y) }
> UNION
> { <s> <p> ?Y }
> }
> shouldn't be different from
> SELECT *
> {
> { <s><p> ?Y }
> UNION
> { BIND (1 AS ?Y) }
> }
> and both should be allowed (returning 1 on the empty graph), is that
> correct?
This is legal. Scope as defined works bottom-up.
Maybe something needed for across a group?
Andy
> thanks,
> Axel
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