- From: Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:35:47 -0400
- To: <sandro@w3.org>
- CC: <alexhall@revelytix.com>, <steve.harris@garlik.com>, <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, <richard@cyganiak.de>, <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>, <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
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 [...] > 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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