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Dear Jacek,

First of all, apologies that we have overlooked to reply earlier.

As you can check in the SPARQL1.1 Query Language Last Call working draft at http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-sparql11-query-20110512/ the working group will both include COALESCE and IF which should be sufficient to address your use cases, see http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-query-20110512/#func-coalesce http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-query-20110512/#func-if

As for assignment (LET) this feature will be available as well, but using a slightly different syntax. Your example

LET ?x=expr1, ?y=expr2
 {
   // use ?x, ?y (as literals exclusively of course)
 }

will rather look as follows

{  BIND (expr1 AS ?x) BIND (expr2 AS ?y) 
   // use ?x, ?y
}

Please refer to http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-sparql11-query-20110512/#assignment for details.

We don't plan to include a CASE statement at this time.

Please respond indicating whether you feel this response has adequately answered your comment.

with best regards, Axel, on behalf of the SPARQL-WG