Attemt to tackle in-scope BIND issue (ACTION-618 - part 1)

Dear all,
 

I'd like to first tackle the issue around BIND, I'll write some more suggestions on the definition of "in-scope" in a separate mail

As per 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2012AprJun/0120.html
I think that there was some problem about the definition of in-scope with BIND.
 
item 12. in
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/query-1.1/rq25.xml#sparqlGrammar
currently says:

"
 *   The variable assigned in a BIND clause must not be already <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope">in-scope</a>.
"

which I think was a bit unclear, since the meaning of "already" in scope wasn't clear.
I have two alternative suggestions to go forward here:

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Option 1:
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Disallow variable being in-scope for the whole group where the BIND clause appears in: 

That could be addressed by changing item 12 as follows:
 
     *   The variable assigned in a BIND clause must not be already <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope">in-scope</a> in the same group the BIND clause appears in if the BIND clause was dropped. That is, if BIND (Exp as V) appears in a pattern  {  P1 BIND (Exp as V) P2 }, then v must not be <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope">in-scope</a <http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope">in-scope</a> > in { P1 P2 } .
 
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Option 2:
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Disallow variable being in-scope in the semegroup, but only before the BIND clause appears: 
That could be addressed by changing item 12 as follows:
 
     *   The variable assigned in a BIND clause must not be already <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope">in-scope</a> 
          within the pattern in the same group befor the BIND clause. That is, if BIND (Exp as V) appears in a pattern  
   {  P1 BIND (Exp as V) P2 }, then v must not be <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope">in-scope</a <http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#variableScope">in-scope</a> > P1.
 

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It seems actually, that both versions resolve the issue and it seems that Option 1 and 2 are somewhat 
equivalent, since we also write that "BIND ends the basic graph pattern", right? (Although I couldn't really find where
that was actually reflected in the semantics definition, or is this implicit in the algorithm in Section "18.2.2.6 Translate Graph Patterns"?)

Best,
Axel


 
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