- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:46:54 -0500
- To: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>, "Evan K. Wallace" <ewallace@cme.nist.gov>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
On Dec 13, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Michael Kifer wrote: [snip] > This is indeed a NAF and a very bad syntax at that. > Why not use something more decent and conventional? > Seems that the process of butchering SPARQL has already began even > before > the language has been born officially. > > Anyway, I thought that Bijan said that SPARQL doesn't have explicit > negation, I never said that,s orry. > but if things like ! and binding tests are allowed then it > appears that it has negation in a roundabout way. Yep, sorry I meant to mention these. > One more stab at it: binding tests are appropriate for programming > languages (like Prolog), but not for a query language that is pitched > as a > declarative language. My $0.02. Comments welcome to the SPARQL list :) Cheers, Bijan.
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