Re: ISSUE-19: Should TURTLE allow triples like "[ :p 123 ]." as SPARQL does ?

From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Subject: Re: ISSUE-19: Should TURTLE allow triples like "[ :p 123 ]." as SPARQL does ?
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 08:52:25 -0500

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> To make your preference, which I share, slightly more objective:
> 
> Turtle square brackets allow one to write data in a subject-oriented
> style instead of triple-oriented style.  This is something we've been
> talking about for JSON, a little.   It's the only way native JSON or XML
> allows data to be written, which I take a solid evidence it's a style
> that is relatively natural and comfortable to people.
> 
> So, Turtle lets you write either way -- triple or subject oriented.

This is a surprise to me.

I don't think that you can say something like, for example.
  ex:John ex:loves < ex:Mary ex:hates ex:John >
which I would expect you to be able to if Turtle was truely subject
oriented (except at top level).

> Except at the top level.  That's what ISSUE-19 is about.  I say "yes" to
> ISSUE-19 because I think when you're working in a subject-oriented
> style, you shouldn't have to step out of it just because you're at the
> top level.
> 
>      -- Sandro

peter

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