Re: Comment on: rq25

On 21 Dec 2009, at 15:51, Olivier Corby wrote:

>> 8 Negation - Testing for the absence of a pattern
>>
>> I am not really happy that the EXISTS and NOT EXISTS pattern can be  
>> used
>> in a filter.
>>
>> Could you say why that is?
>
> It is a feeling about language design.
> Graph pattern is about graph match and filter is about evaluable  
> expressions. Here we  mix both and that looks strange to me...

I agree. Although SQL does it, it seems like a hack there too.

For me it's the fact that you suddenly have graph patters inside a  
FILTER().

Does it add expressivity?

- Steve

Received on Monday, 21 December 2009 17:50:35 UTC