- From: Alberto Reggiori <alberto@asemantics.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:27:47 +0200
- To: Tom Adams <tom@tucanatech.com>
- Cc: DAWG public list <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Aug 30, 2004, at 11:32 PM, Tom Adams wrote: >> or any chance to get '$' symbol accepted as a synonym for '?' symbol >> in the BRQL spec? > > I'll admit to bias here... I think it's just familiarity, but I much > prefer $ to ? for denoting variables, it seems easier to read to me. > Of course, others will differ. +1 > > One thing we need to keep in mind is the characters we use, as people > will end up using the language in far flung places. For example in > iTQL we chose to use "<" and ">" to delimit URIs. This has caused us > no end of heartache when dealing with JSP pages, XSL, or anything XML > like that requires that these be escaped, or defined in CDATA > sections. ...interesting related and *relevant* experience my whole point is: it might be really worth to leverage on the existing DBC/XML software infrastructure API/protocols, and then try to be compliant as much as possible - instead of designing yet another programming language, API and protocol stack. This would also make our specs thinner, smaller and easier to implement. Again, simplicity vs. completeness... cheers Alberto
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