- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:34:57 +0000
- To: Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>
- CC: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>, Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 27/01/2010 16:21, "Dave Beckett" <dave@dajobe.org> wrote: > Hugh Glaser wrote: >> I am hoping that my proposal to make Turtle ',' syntax compatible with N3 >> might find its way there for future consideration. >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-cwm-talk/2008JulSep/0002.html > > That's allowing optional commas at ends of lists. Seems do-able Yes. Would be good (and consistent with ; in turtle and the N3 usage). (I would guess it wasn't a deliberate "feature".) > >> It would be good if N3 documents were also Turtle documents. > > That's not the goal of Turtle to be a superset of N3. Turtle is to express > the RDF graph, not cwm's datamodel. That includes other concepts such as > formulas (formulae?) which aren't quite named graphs, plus has other syntax > sugar that I think are interesting but I see as over the bar of what is > necessary while remaining easy to understand. Yes this is a criticism > of N3, but if I thought N3 was the full answer, I wouldn't have come up with > Turtle! Ah. Thanks. My bad. Hugh > > Dave > > >> Best >> Hugh >> >> On 26/01/2010 01:49, "Dave Beckett" <dave@dajobe.org> wrote: >> ... >>> I've consolidated the issues I've got from my inbox, comments and elsewhere >>> (IRC) into an issues list. That github repo also has the turtle spec >>> history and tests. >>> >>> http://github.com/dajobe/turtle/blob/master/ISSUES.md >>> >>> (might improve the layout, I'm new to Markdown) >>> >>> and then I might make a new version there if I have the energy. It's >>> more likely I'll do this before any new WG appears, I would guess. >>> >>> Dave >>> >> >> > >
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