quick sanity check question on sub-query, service and variable scoping

• From: Gary King <gwking@metabang.com>
• Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:54:24 -0400
• To: public-sparql-dev@w3.org
• Message-Id: <1E0B82D6-D778-4F2C-9196-04B17EA14AAE@metabang.com>

Here is a contrived example trying to find when some person has a startTime after other people (I did say it was contrived :-)). First with sub-query and then with SERVICE:

select distinct * {
  ?person a ex:Person .
  ?person ex:startTime ?time1 .

  { select ?otherPerson {
    ?otherPerson a ex:Person .
    ?otherPerson ex:startTime ?time2 .
    FILTER (?time2 > ?time1)
  } }
}

select distinct * {
  ?person a ex:Person .
  ?person ex:startTime ?time1 .

  service <http://example.com/foo> {
    ?otherPerson a ex:Person .
    ?otherPerson ex:startTime ?time2 .
    FILTER (?time2 > ?time1)
  }
}

My belief is that both of these will correctly return no results because `?time1` is not bound in either the sub-query or the service call and so the filter will uniformly fail. 

Correct?

thanks,

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