- From: John Walker <john.walker@semaku.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:56:44 +0100 (CET)
- To: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
- Cc: public-hydra@w3.org
Hi Ruben, > On November 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be> wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > In a recent post [1] Ruben suggested "The number of pages (and next links) > > per fragment MUST be finite." > > That suggestion no longer holds, but yes, I suggested this :-) > > > Would there be any use of a mechanism to indicate the fragment is infinite > > to prevent a client 'dumbly' going into an infinite loop. > > It would not be an infinite loop in the sense of "being stuck", because new > data is always pulled. > But it would indeed never terminate. Indeed, that is a better way to put it. > > > An obvious example of such a fragment would be the sequence of prime > > numbers, or any other infinite series (Fibonacci, factorial). > > Not sure of the practical use of this, but perhaps worth considering. > > In combination with streaming results, this would not really be an issue. > E.g., for practical purposes, http://fragments.dbpedia.org/2015/en can be > considered "infinite", > but you can still query it: > > http://client.linkeddatafragments.org/#datasources=http%3A%2F%2Ffragments.dbpedia.org%2F2015%2Fen&query=CONSTRUCT%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fs%20%3Fp%20%3Fo.%0A%7D Sweet :-) Although fan starts whirring rather alarmingly in my laptop after not too long... > > Best, > > Ruben > > John
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