- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:01:18 +0100
- To: public-ppl@w3.org
On 4 June 2013 22:14, Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> wrote: > In this particular case, an XSL-FO formatter, I'd probably go with F#. It's > impure, which is practical. It's got great support for concurrency and > parallelism, and pretty good support for actors if you chose that. And there > are pluses like Units of Measure ( > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx), so you could have > the compiler actually help make sure that when you're doing calculations > with FO areas etc with dimensioned numbers, that you're not mixing apples > and oranges. IMHO it would make more sense to rationalise the units and disallow mixing them. Ditto with colours. Following CSS here never made sense to me. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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