- From: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 16:17:00 -0500
- To: Pierre-Antoine Champin <pa@champin.net>
- Cc: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>, "public-rdf-comments@w3.org" <public-rdf-comments@w3.org>, David Robillard <d@drobilla.net>
* Pierre-Antoine Champin <pa@champin.net> [2013-03-04 20:50+0000] > Woopsie... :-( > > I indeed commited this change to Eric's original files (using the correct > \u escaping), > because it just seemed more "natural" to use the simple escaping. > > I completely overlooked the fact that this was not "legacy" n-triples, > but had I noticed that, I would definitely have asked Eric's permission > before > (and probably not even that, as I agree that his original choice was the > best). > > I'm really REALLY sorry I caused so much trouble to several people. > I reverted it on the hg repo. no prob at all. dvcs's HTML interface make it easy to track this stuff down. btw, did you push? 'cause i still see \b and \f at the tip: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/file/tip/rdf-turtle/coverage/tests/literal_with_BACKSPACE.nt https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/file/tip/rdf-turtle/coverage/tests/literal_with_FORM_FEED.nt (though it's possible that i overestimate my understanding of dvcs's HTML interface.) > pa > > > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote: > > > * Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com> [2013-03-04 12:41-0500] > > > Gregg alerted to me to the fact that I had overlooked the "coverage" > > part of the test suite. In trying to run those, I've run into another > > problem that I wish to comment on. > > > > > > The two eval tests: > > > > > > #literal_with_FORM_FEED > > > #literal_with_BACKSPACE > > > > > > are based on a comparison with N-Triples files that seem to rely on the > > new, unpublished N-Triples grammar (with the use of escaped forms \b and \f > > in strings). However, I don't see that this has anything to do with testing > > of Turtle, and wonder why those files don't use the serialization format > > from the existing N-Triples grammar (using the \u escaped form). Moreover, > > even when/if a new N-Triples document is published, I don't believe it's > > wise to base the new Turtle test suite on the also new N-Triples grammar. > > The N-Triples files in the Turtle test suite should conform to the existing > > grammar. > > > > I like using ye olde n-triples for this (and in fact, think it should have > > a name, like "n-triples"). I originally committed > > > > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/file/a9221c4323e3/rdf-turtle/coverage/tests/literal_with_BACKSPACE.nt > > which has > > <http://a.example/s> <http://a.example/p> "\u0008" . > > > > I think Pierre-Antoine has a different notion of what's an appropriate > > escape form: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/rev/3bb586f7bd9a . > > Pierre-Antoine, why did you prefer "\b" to "\u0008"? > > > > > > > thanks, > > > .greg > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -ericP > > > > -- -ericP
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