- From: Ivan Mikhailov <imikhailov@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:34:53 +0700
- To: Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, "public-rdf-comments@w3.org" <public-rdf-comments@w3.org>
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 23:30 -0400, Gregg Kellogg wrote: > Personally, I prefer is..of, and suggest that we include that as syntactic suggar: > > foaf:Person is rdf:type of :gregg, :andy > > Reads much better. (Not so much in the first use case). > > Gregg OpenLink Virtuoso supports "is ... of" syntax for years because it was easier to parse a wrong resource than to explain that Turtle differs from N3 and the author of the resource can't write <#al> is <#child> of <#pat> . as in http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer Surprisingly, nobody tried another syntax sugar from the very same paragraph of same doc, namely <#pat> has <#child> <#al> . so nobody noticed that we've discontinued its support. I'm not sure we really need this syntax now. Nowadays Turtle is much more popular than N3. But if there's some need in sugar, let it be "is...of". Best Regards, Ivan Mikhailov OpenLink Software http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com
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