- From: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:25:11 -0400
- To: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
We have two issues going back to Feb with people requesting whitespace before '.' and ';', i.e. <s> <p> <o> . # good <s> <p> <o>. # bad <s> <p> <o> ; <p2> <o2> . # good <s> <p> <o>; <p2> <o2> . # bad We discussed the grammar at length but this never came up. Proposal: answer comments 1 and 2 with "The RDF Working Group believes that introducing a requirement for whitespace before '.' and ';' will break a considerable fraction of the deployed Turtle and introduce unfortunate incompatibilities with SPARQL and Notation3." Note that commentor 1 is responding to lookahead required when implementing a parser without a separate greedy lexer and commenter 2 is backing up 1 with a usability argument. Comments: <http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/Turtle_Candidate_Recommendation_Comments#Issues> comment 1: http://www.w3.org/mid/1361141033.16176.30.camel@verne.drobilla.net comment 2: http://www.w3.org/mid/1361211939.4549.115.camel@dbooth-w530 -- -ericP
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