- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:41:01 +0100
- To: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 06:35:13PM +0100, Andy Seaborne wrote: > >So, I'd like a new operator CAST > > CAST(URI u, Unicode string s) returning what would be written as s^^u > > Does this include: > > CAST(?x, "foobar") > > that is, a dynamic cast? This seems more like a constructor than a cast as > the value is changed. This would make compiling to SQL quite hard, I guess. Probably can't be done, but there are things that can't easily/pracically be done purely in SQL currently. That said I dont have any particularly strong feelings on cast syntax one way or the other. - Steve
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