- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:18:46 +0100
- To: Alex Hall <alexhall@revelytix.com>
- CC: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>, RDF-WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
> This is ISSUE-19 (http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/19) and was > discussed some on the mailing list 13 months (!) ago and subsequently > closed as a duplicate of ISSUE-1. If memory serves, there was some > pushback at the time on allowing it in Turtle but that might have been > overridden by SPARQL alignment concerns. > > Alex > For the record, there is another difference which is the SPARQL form: { ( "abc" ?x "def" ) . } and the list must be non-empty -- { () } is not allowed This is obscure, and takes a few moments to work out what it matches (hint: not lists of length 3). IMO: The best choice here is change SPARQL. It's not exactly a feature for anything other than corner case syntax test cases. Andy
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