ron said: > jos said: > > [...] > > > I think it would be a mistake to not provide a mechanism for > > > comments. > > > > we fully agree with that, so we can have > > <a> _:b#@@check with Art > > <c>. > > Note that the grammar suggested for comments was > > comment ::= ws* '#' string eoln > > where I assume ws = white space. So your example above > would not be a legal comment. > Given that '#' can appear in the URI-like thingies > RDF uses, I would be very uncomfortable allowing any > non-whitespace characters in front of it. We want software > dealing with that format to be as simple as possible. > But comments are a valuable mechanism, so some provision > should be made for them. isn't * meaning 0 or more occurrences? actually in N3 it is allowed, and not giving trouble with URI-like thingies, because they are enclosed in <> (and literals in "") although I agree that your proposal is more straightforward. -- Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/Received on Monday, 18 June 2001 11:58:49 EDT
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