Re: ISSUE-48: Less verbose delete syntax

On 9 Nov 2009, at 20:19, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 20:05, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
>> Well, Andy and Steve has already getting started and have mentioned
>> allowing just a BGP too, but yeah, I can live with your proposal,  
>> as long
>> as we keep an issue open for a fuller graph pattern for a time- 
>> permitting,
>> or more likely for SPARQL 1.2.
>
> DELETE WHERE {BGP} is fine.

Yup. Well, BGP + GRAPH. The stuff that's legal on both sides.

> Steve and I were exploring, rather than getting as far proposing, on  
> what more could be done. :-)
>
> Unless "more" can give a feeling of being really solid and  
> definitely the right thing to do, then I prefer to leave anything  
> beyond DELETE WHERE { BGP } to SPARQL-next.

+1

> That said, a safe step is to allow BGP+FILTERs

I'm not so sure, FILTERs don't feel any less complex than OPTIONAL and  
friends.

If we're going with simple lets just have templates (BGP + GRAPH).

- Steve

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