- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:14:12 +0100
- To: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- CC: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>, SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 14/10/10 13:18, Lee Feigenbaum wrote: > On 10/14/2010 6:35 AM, Axel Polleres wrote: >> For clarification, another thing: BTW, what now about combining * with >> project expressions? >> SELECT * (expr AS ?newVar) >> would seem convenient to simply extend a binding, but the current >> grammar forbids this. > > I'm pretty sure we've discussed this in the past and agreed that SELECT > * is a convenient abbreviation but that we don't need this extra > complication in the grammar. Technical point: An implementation does have to do the work needed (the analysis of the query at that point) for that use of "*" in order to determine whether ?newVar is allowed. >> Anyways, we actually don't need it if we have BIND with exactly this >> behaviour, yes? >> So, given we have BIND, I can live without the possiblity to "extend" >> "SELECT *", >> just wanted to note this. > > Well, you could do it easily enough without BIND anyway; it's just an > extra shortcut. > > Lee >> >> >> best, >> Axel >> I'm neutral at the moment. Andy
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