Re: proposed pre-CR edits to Turtle spec

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:20 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have read through Eric's changes and feel that they are appropriate
> (unless Gavin objects).  Gavin?
>

Nope, no objections.


>
> Eric has also produced a test coverage report and will upload it to dvcs.
>  Thanks, Eric!
>
> Regards,
> Dave
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> On Dec 30, 2012, at 23:06, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:
>
> > I finally got a good chance to make a detailed review of the Last Call
> grammar and test out the semantics.
> >
> > I tweaked the grammar slightly but the language it defines is the same:
> >  Struck NIL because it wasn't referenced
> >  Unfactored blank because it wasn't always blank (could be rdf:nil).
> >  Changed [Pp][Rr][Ee][Ff][Ii][Xx] to "PREFIX" with a note about case.
> >  Added missing xs before unicode code points in PN_CHARS_BASE and
> PN_CHARS.
> >
> > In the semantics, I updated the term constructors to indicate which
> escaping was relevent where and updated the Triple Constructors after
> testing the algorithm against all of the Turtle tests that Andy submitted.
> >
> > Green stuff in <http://www.w3.org/2012/12/Turtle-ericP> is stuff I
> propose to add. Red I propose to remove. I think it's worth getting this
> right before CR. Most of my feedback comes from my own XMass CR period. I
> believe all of this is clarifications or editorial adjustments so we could
> still go to CR immediately.
> >
> > I also aligned the Turtle grammar intro more with the SPARQL spec 'cause
> it's pretty well weathered and had a lot of useful points. (We'll probably
> want to strike "6 In signed numbers, no white space is allowed between the
> sign and the number." if folks agree that it's not helpful to the Turtle
> spec, but stuff like identifying tokens and case sensitivity is a good
> idea.)
> >
> > BTW, we don't need the At-risk that we discussed for the { <s> <p> <o>
> ;;; . } decision as it was present in the LC grammar.
> > --
> > -ericP
> >
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