Re: Finalizing syntax

On 03/02/2010 12:01 PM, Steve Harris wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2010, at 09:39, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>
>> To get to a final syntax, the things I know need doing to [1] are:
>>
>> + SPARQL Update syntax
>>
>> + Mandatory AS (it's optional currently)
>>
>> + ! in property paths, if we include that.
>>
>> + DISTINCT in all built-in aggregates
>>
>> + Finalize the aggregate keywords.
>>
>> + TF-LIB: Constructors for terms [2]
>>
>> IRI(string) -> IRI
>
> Should that be
> IRI(string or IRI)
> to make it the parallel of STR() and presumably there will be an alias
> URI(...)?
>
> Otherwise you'd have to do IRI(STR(?x)) to be sure you'd get a URI out
> from URI in.

Seems reasonable - n harm extending the function signature.

Otherwise it's:

IF(isURI(?x),?x, URI(?x))

>> BNODE() -> fresh blank node
>> BNODE(string) -> same blank node as other use of BNODE(string)
>> LITERAL(str) ->
>> LITERAL(str, IRI) ->
>> LITERAL(str, string) ->
>>
>> + TF-LIB: IN and BETWEEN
>> (COALESCE and IF are already in the grammar)
>
> I've never used BETWEEN, so I'm not sure what it does.

As it's just syntactic sugar, and the strangeness of the boundary, I'm 
happy not to have it.  I just recall it being mentioned.

	Andy
>
> - Steve
>