Ah yes
What about
SELECT (SAMPLE(?a) as ?A) (SAMPLE(?b) as ?B)
{
{ BIND(1 as ?a) }
UNION
{ BIND(2 as ?b)}
}
then 1, 2 looks like an attractive answer
Jeremy
On Jul 7, 2014, at 3:49 PM, james anderson <ja...@dydra.com> wrote:
> good morning;
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> On 8 Jul 2014, at 00:27, Jeremy J Carroll <j...@syapse.com> wrote:
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>> I was thinking about SAMPLE and feel that there is a bug with the spec
>> because it allows
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>> A=1 B=2
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>> as an answer from
>>
>> SELECT (SAMPLE(?a) as ?A) (SAMPLE(?b) as ?B)
>> {
>> { BIND(1 as ?a) BIND(1 as ?b)}
>> UNION
>> { BIND(2 as ?a) BIND(2 as ?b)}
>> }
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>> I think the principal of least surprise would suggest that a single select
>> should use the same solution to pick out the sample values, giving either
>> 1,1 or 2,2 as possible solutions here.
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> what would be the consequence of a solution in which one of the variables was
> not bound?
>
>>
>> Jeremy
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