Jneubert added a comment.

This is not only a question of the tools in use, but also it also imposes 
length restrictions to queries, which are transmitted in the GET URL.

To cite the Stackoverflow entry mentioned above 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url-in-different-browsers>:
 //"Extremely long URLs are usually a mistake. URLs over 2,000 characters will 
not work in the most popular web browsers. Don't use them if you intend your 
site to work for the majority of Internet users."//

Complex queries hit this limit quite easily (for examples from another 
application domain, see 
https://github.com/jneubert/skos-history/tree/master/sparql/stw). And we won't 
enforce bad practices like waiving comments and indents, one-character variable 
names and the like.

Another use case are queries with long VALUES lists as input (e.g. of names or 
codes from another application). Such clauses also can easily exceed any 
reasonable GET URL length.


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