- From: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:47:23 -0700
- To: Tom Hillman <tom@expertml.com>
- Cc: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, public-ixml@w3.org
Tom Hillman writes: > c.f. this note: > > https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-31/#id-map-constructors While I have a great affection and respect for many of those who served in the XQuery WG and admire the languages they and the XSLT WG created, their approach to grammar design and parsing is not a part of their activity that anyone should wish to emulate. Ad hoc rules of the form "if this doesn't work right, try adding whitespace" are a prime example of why. The XQuery grammar is ... not an example of admirable syntax design. Michael -- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC http://blackmesatech.com
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