Re: Negation decision : unexpected effects

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com> wrote:
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> For example:
>
> { ?s ?p ?o MINUS { SELECT (:s AS ?s){} } }
>
> removes the ?s=:s binding rows regardless of the contents of the graph.
>
> { ?s ?p ?o MINUS { ?x ?y ?z } }
>
> where the contents of the graph don't matter for the MINUS (if it's empty ?s
> ?p ?o is zero rows)

Sorry, I'm not clear on this. Are you saying that this just returns
the contents of the graph, and that the MINUS has no effect since
there are no matching variables?

Thanks,
Paul Gearon

Received on Monday, 5 April 2010 21:57:49 UTC