Re: n3/n-triples syntax question

From: "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>

> I was telling Bijan that his n3 parser should output N-Triples, when
> we came across the problem that anonymous node names (_:qname) are a
> pain to generate uniquely.  When you need one (eg for a [ ]
> construct), you can't just make one ("_:g57"), because the user might
> use the same identifier ("_:g57") later in the document.

If someone is writing an N3 document, why would they want to make up their
own anonymous node name ... that seems to me like a contradiction.  What am
I missing?

Seth Russell