Re: A parameters alternative

James Fuller <jim@webcomposite.com> writes:
> I was thinking along the same lines … but to make an offering to the
> gods of reuse perhaps we could just call it 'map' then params become
> less exceptional ?
>
> Or am I missing something ?

I think parameters still have to be called out specially because
they're bound to xsl:param in XSLT, external variables in XQuery, etc.
So even if we add maps in general, we still have to identify which
maps contain parameters.

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                                          norm

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