- From: Tim Mills <tim@cbcl.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:16:06 +0000
- To: Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
- CC: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, EXPath CG <public-expath@w3.org>
Perhaps, but I'd much rather see a Haskell-like solution for handling
side effects in XQuery, but that's somewhat outside the scope of a
function library.
Cheers,
Tim
On 09/12/2013 16:56, Florent Georges wrote:
> On 9 December 2013 16:56, Tim Mills wrote:
>
>> let $a := file:append-text('foo.txt', ' cat')
>> let $b := file:append-text('foo.txt', 'fish')
>> return ($b, $a)
> I think the idiomatic solution is to create an explicit dependency
> between the calls, by returning "something" from the functions that is
> taken as a parameter as well, as explained there:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-expath/2012Aug/0000.html
>
> I am afraid I don't remember why we didn't follow this route, but
> that should be quite easy to find in the archive, if you are
> interested.
>
> Regards,
>
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