- From: David Wood <david.wood@talis.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:35:49 -0400
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
+1. If we gain consensus that way, then we can talk to the SPARQL WG. My comment still stands. Regards, Dave On Apr 1, 2011, at 12:22, Sandro Hawke wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 12:00 -0400, David Wood wrote: >> >> Compatibility between W3C specs should take precedence over preference >> considerations. > > Of course, but I'm only using my "personal preference" as a stand-in for > what I believe is a widely held preference. If I thought it were just > me, I would never have brought it up. > > I think a sufficiently widely-held preference should take preference > over compatibility between specs. And maybe SPARQL can fix this, > although they have much less motivation to because their users are of > necessity much more technically inclined than ours. (It's always going > to be harder to write queries than to write assertions.) > > Perhaps we should try to find out how many people are relying on > omitting trailing digits in SPARQL and how users feel about the > requirement to sometimes put spaces before periods. > > The prolog community might have some insights here, since Prolog also > uses dots as both decimal points and statement terminators. > > -- Sandro > >
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