Re: ISSUE-18: How do we parse "18." in Turtle?

From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
Subject: Re: ISSUE-18: How do we parse "18." in Turtle?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:18:55 -0500

> Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> By the way, this is not the only place that "longest token" is important:
>> 
>> { :x :p18. }
>> 
>> is that ":p1 8."  or ":p 18" or ":p18" and an error?  That has not been 
>> a practical issue raised.
> 
> Goodness, you're right, I've just noticed that there's hardly any white 
> space requirements in the EBNF, which means a whole lot of garbage can 
> be produced of course, for example this is a list of three integers (123).
> 
> Needs fixed.

I don't think that lists *need* to be fixed.  See one of my earlier
message for more on this.

This is separate from *should" be fixed, but I don't think that this
should be fixed either.   

peter

Received on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:41:58 UTC