RE: [XQuery] IfExpr should allow an optional else clause from Jonathan Robie on 2004-01-28 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from January 2004)

From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 05:37:14 -0500
To: "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>, "TAN Kuan Hui" <kuanhui@xemantics.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20040128053552.026fab50@ncmail.datadirect-technologies.com>

At 06:55 AM 1/27/2004, Kay, Michael wrote:
>(For my own part, I would have much prefered a syntax in which
>expressions were self-closing, e.g.
>
>if (Expr) then Expr [else Expr] fi
>
>But I lost that battle. I don't think it would be a good idea to make
>"else" optional unless we introduce a mandatory closer to remove the
>ambiguity.)

For just this one expression, I agree - but if we went that way, we should 
do the same for other expression types, including FLWOR expressions. 
Working this through...it seemed to make the language more cumbersome.

Jonathan

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