Please allow trailing semicolon (";") after update statement

The SPARQL Update syntax currently PROHIBITS a trailing semicolon at the
end of the last update statement:

[30]  Update  ::=  Prologue ( Update1 ( ';' Update )? )?

although it REQUIRES a semicolon after all other update statements in an
update operation.  I realize that the semicolon was intended to be a
separator rather than a terminator, but in practice this restriction
just becomes a pointless annoyance to users.  Programming language
designers learned this lesson many years ago.

Please relax this restriction to allow extra semicolons. 

Thanks!


-- 
David Booth, Ph.D.
http://dbooth.org/

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Received on Friday, 25 May 2012 16:57:30 UTC