Re: a minor thing... prefix syntax

Fair point... was it ever asked to the N3/Turtle proponents?

Axel

On 20 Jul 2010, at 14:55, Andy Seaborne wrote:

> Because it's not @SELECT @WHERE @OPTIONAL @FILTER @ORDER_BY.
> 
> Because @prefix is syntactically a language tag and using @ to trigger
> that gets us the greatest coverage for parsers.
> 
> (The question I have is is why N3 has @prefix given that N3 qnames must
> always have a ':' in them and @ is the marker for language tag.)
> 
>         Andy
> 
> On 20/07/2010 2:46 PM, Axel Polleres wrote:
> > <excplicitchairhatoff>
> >
> > asking mainly those with historical knowledge...
> >
> > was it ever discussed whether to alternatively allow TURTLE style prefix declarations in SPARQL, i.e.
> >
> >
> > @prefix ns:<http://example.org/ns#>  .
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > PREFIX ns:<http://example.org/ns#>
> >
> > ?
> >
> > It doesn't seem to be a major threat to the grammar for me and would ease copy paste in many cases...
> > ... I know it is not directly in scope and if there is disagreement on it, I won't mention it further, but just thought it would be nice
> >
> > </excplicitchairhatoff>
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