ASK & GROUP BY / HAVING

A colleague pointed out to me this morning that the SPARQL 1.1 grammar 
does not support solution modifiers (including GROUP BY / HAVING) with 
ASK queries.

This means that you cannot use ASK to ask a boolean question involving 
aggregates ("are there any countries that have more than 5,000 
cities?"). (Well, you can do it using a subquery, but not directly.)

Is this purposeful?

thanks,
Lee

Received on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:32:05 UTC