- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:13:52 +0000
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com>, "public-rdf-dawg@w3.org Group" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
We did already discuss a very similar design, put forward by Eric P., there wasn't much enthusiasm from the group at that time. People may have changed their minds of course. - Steve On 12 Feb 2010, at 10:28, Ivan Herman wrote: > The question is whether we should 'keep the door open' for Emanuele's > design until the f2f and try to find some time to discuss there. I am > not fully convinced of the value of always referring back to SQL > (eg, I > am not an SQL user, so this argument does not resonate for me) and I > did > find value in Emanuele's design which, in some way, might be more > succinct than what we have... > > I do not want to put up a fight for this alternative design, but I > would > not want to give the impression to dismiss it too lightly > > Ivan > > On 2010-2-11 15:05 , Andy Seaborne wrote: >> I think we need to recognize that Emanuele's design is not just about >> syntax and it allows for things that can't be done in SPARQL 1.1 >> without >> duplication of patterns (e.g. multiple aggregates over the same >> pattern). >> >> While it's attractive to be able to do such thing, on balance, I >> don't >> propose we address such functionality in this round. >> >> Andy >> >> On 11/02/2010 10:08, Steve Harris wrote: >>> c.f. >>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2010Feb/0006.html >>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Emanuele, >>> >>> Thanks for your comment regarding the SPARQL 1.1 working draft >>> syntax >>> for aggregate operations. >>> >>> The working group did consider an aggregate design similar to the >>> one >>> you propose while discussing the various syntax options. >>> >>> However, the overall opinion of the group was that the familiarity >>> of >>> the SQL-style aggregate operations was of a greater benefit than the >>> terseness of the syntax. >>> >>> - Steve Harris, on behalf of the SPARQL WG. >>> >> > > -- > > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +31-641044153 > PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html > FOAF : http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf > vCard : http://www.ivan-herman.net/HermanIvan.vcf > -- Steve Harris, Garlik Limited 2 Sheen Road, Richmond, TW9 1AE, UK +44 20 8973 2465 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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