- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:16:46 +0000
- To: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:39:29AM +0000, Andy Seaborne wrote: > >Maybe sparql, turtle/n3 should follow that. It seems odd to not have > >short forms for constants for numeric datatypes that sparql supports and > >that n3/cwm uses given that they can be made relatively unambiguous. > >(What datatypes does cwm do artithmetic in?) > > SPARQL does not require support for float. As with F&O, if a promotion is > needed, then it is to double, not trying float. > > Is there sufficient use of float to make it worthwhile? The cost as I see > it is support for doing float arithemtic, not the grammar. I dont see the need for float, we dont want to be in the same place as C where you end up with two versions of every function, its not like anyones going to be doing high performance maths with SPARQL. - Steve
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