[Bug 10074] Missing operator definitions

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10074





--- Comment #2 from dnovatchev@gmail.com  2010-07-03 13:47:51 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The other side of the coin, however, is to question whether the mechanism of
> mapping operators to functions really serves any useful didactic purpose. It
> was quite handy in the early days before we decided which functions should have
> an operator syntax and which should only be available as function calls, but
> that's history.

This has a much more important aspect than purely historical. Right now it
isn't possible to pass an operator as a parameter or return it as result of a
function. This significantly limits the scope of the HOFs in XPath. This issue
was raised in bug 7350 among other issues.

I still don't see any compelling reasons why operators shouldn't be part of the
set of normal HOF functions where they do belong.

Should I file a separate bug for this problem?


Dimitre Novatchev.

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