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

David,

It is allowed already:

[29]  Update = Prologue ( Update1 ( ';' Update )? )?

'Update' can be empty hence

( ';' <empty> )?

which is a trailing ';'

http://www.sparql.org/update-validator.html

 Andy

On 25/05/12 17:56, David Booth wrote:
> 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!
>
>

Received on Saturday, 26 May 2012 13:43:56 UTC