- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:20:21 +0100
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com>
- Cc: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>, SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 2010-04-06, at 09:07, Andy Seaborne wrote: > > On 05/04/2010 10:16 PM, Steve Harris wrote: >> On 2010-04-05, at 21:51, Lee Feigenbaum wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I wouldn't be in favor of this proposal - I'd find it very difficult to >>>>> justify adding 2 forms of negation to SPARQL that seem virtually >>>>> indistinguishable from one another in most scenarios. >>>> >>>> We are doing that under the F2F3 resolution (the second one) regardless >>>> of my proposal and under the first proposal of the F2F, negation used >>>> the syntax "NOT EXISTS". >>> >>> I believe that most of the user world would simply accept that the words used for negation as a graph pattern and negation in a filter are different. I don't think any such easy explanation can be given when both can be used as graph pattern keywords. >> >> Indeed, SQL has the MINUS table operation, and NOT EXISTS in the WHERE/FILTER operation as well. > > In SQL, MINUS goes outside SELECT, making it outside GROUP BY and separate from the join condition part of the SQL query. Yup, but so do the other table operations, UNION and friends. - Steve -- Steve Harris, Garlik Limited 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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