trailing dot in grammar rule for decimals

• From: Benjamin Nowack <bnowack@appmosphere.com>
• Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:40:29 +0100
• To: RDF DAWG comments list <public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <PM-EH.20051213184029.968A9.2.1D@192.168.27.2>

Hi,

if I understand the current grammar entry 74 for decimals
correctly, then a trailing dot is allowed. In this case,
(and together with the optional dot in the final triple
of a graph pattern,) the 1000 in {?foo ?bar 1000.} could be
an integer or a decimal, and I'm not 100% sure which literal
("1000" or "1000.0") to generate during the parsing process.
Not allowing the trailing dot would make parsing numeric
literals a little bit simpler.

(I've checked the turtle and the n3 grammars, n3 does not
allow the trailing dot, turtle however seems to allow it.)

Or am I misreading the grammar rules?


regards,
benjamin

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Received on Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:41:29 UTC