- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:03:45 +0100
- To: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 2010-09-28, at 19:12, Gregory Williams wrote: > On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Andy Seaborne wrote: > >> In the draft response to a comment: >> >> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/CommentResponse:PA-1 >> >> [[ >> Also, note that the actual syntax may still change, in fact, the group is discussing whether to take your proposal on board to allow '+' as a shortcut notation for string concatenation (fn:concat). >> ]] > > I've never liked the idea of using + for string concatenation. It never seemed to square with my intuition, stemming from numeric addition, that + should be commutative. I'm not a fan of overloading in general, but more specifically the use of + for string concatenation in other weakly typed languages, Javascript for .e.g., is problematic. - Steve -- Steve Harris, CTO, 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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