Ok. Sorry to have muddied the waters with talk about behavior of "="
depending on its posititon. Those are two completely different issues.
One could have the same hint for owl:sameAs
me foaf:knows [ owl:sameAs </joe>;
foaf:name "Joe" ] .
So the worry cannot be with the "=" sign itself.
The = sign is used a lot and is easy to understand for people coming
from different languages.
Henry
On 3 Oct 2007, at 13:49, Dan Brickley wrote:
>> My vote would be for doing either of those things:
>> a) allow "=" as pure syntactic sugar for owl:sameAs, or
>> b) allow "=" only immediately after "[", as a syntax for creating
>> a named node instead of a blank node; owl:sameAs would still need
>> to be written explicitly.
>> I don't have a clear preference for a) or b), I think both would
>> be useful. Option b) might have the slight advantage that it can
>> be used by Turtle serializers.
>
> The further this takes us from SPARQL's RDF notation, the more
> worried I become...
Received on Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:59:49 UTC