Re: three questions regarding library modules

Mark,

I have to admit you have a good point here, and I will bring this up in 
the WG.

Watch this space...

Jonathan

Mark D. Anderson wrote:

> 
>>Local functions (and variables) are obviously useful, but we don't have 
>>them in XQuery 1.0. Since every function and variable declared in a 
>>module must be qualified by the module's target namespace, you can't use 
>>the local prefix, which would put it in a different namespace.
>>
>>You could try asking us to consider local functions and variables as a 
>>new feature, but this has been considered several times and has always 
>>failed so far.
> 
> 
> I think there are two related issues here:
> 1. support for an automatic "local:" namespace in a module.
> 2. allowing multiple function/variable namespaces in a module.
> 
> As I understand it, both of these are allowed for the main
> module, and neither for a library module.
> 
> If #2 is allowed, then #1 is relatively moot, since with #2,
> a library module could just declare some arbitrary namespace for its
> local functions (perhaps using a "local" prefix for the namespace,
> or not).
> 
> In fact, I really don't see the point of #1 but having it
> for the main module only: since it isn't available to other
> modules, it isn't like there are extra features available
> (that is, it isn't like the way anonymous namespaces
> work in C++).
> 
> Anyhow, I could begrudgingly without live with the existing
> limitations on library modules. I just think it an odd 
> decision to give main modules more priviledges; in any 
> project beyond a certain size, I end up putting practically
> everything in libraries, so special features only in
> the main module don't help me much.
> 
> -mda
> 
>