http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1705 ------- Comment #24 from mike@saxonica.com 2006-10-27 20:57 ------- Could you explain the problem in layman's terms? I can't see how rearranging the variable declarations within a module can materially affect the static context for a particular variable declaration. We have: ((DefaultNamespaceDecl | Setter | NamespaceDecl | Import) Separator)* ((VarDecl | FunctionDecl | OptionDecl) Separator)* which means that the only effect is that a variable is moved relative to another variable, function, or option declaration. Option declarations don't matter because they have no formal semantics. Variables don't matter because rearranging the order of variables is the whole point. That leaves functions. Variables can contain forwards references to functions, but functions can't contain forwards references to variables. So we need to do the rearrangement in such a way that references from functions to variables are validated before the variables are rearranged. That seems to be all. I appreciate that it's much easier to say this in English than in the formal notation of the spec, but it doesn't look insuperable to me. Michael KayReceived on Friday, 27 October 2006 20:57:36 GMT
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