- From: Alexandre Passant <alexandre.passant@deri.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:11:57 +0100
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com>
- Cc: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 31 Mar 2010, at 09:13, Andy Seaborne wrote: > Should the syntax of MINUS be like UNION with {} on the left-hand side > > { { ?s a foaf:Person > ?s foaf:name ?name > } > MINUS > { ?s foaf:knows ?other } > } > > or without: > > { ?s a foaf:Person . > ?s foaf:name ?name . > MINUS { ?s foaf:name ?name } > } My preference for the second one, saves a few editing process when adding / removing a MINUS clause from an existing query. And I see MINUS more as a "negative FILTER" so it makes sense to me not to have these {} to the pattern before. Alex. > > Either works from a grammar point of view. > > Andy > -- Dr. Alexandre Passant Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway :me owl:sameAs <http://apassant.net/alex> .
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