- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 12:56:22 +0100
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Cc: Alex Hall <alexhall@revelytix.com>, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>, RDF-WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 2012-05-15, at 11:18, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> 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.
+1
- Steve
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