Re: Turtle and predicate object lists.

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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