[Bug 10072] math:sqrt incorrectly listed in section 4.7 "Trigonometric functions"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10072





--- Comment #3 from dnovatchev@gmail.com  2010-07-13 12:54:46 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I changed the section heading to "trigonometric and other mathematical".
> The WG agreed this was editorial, and it has been reclassified accordingly.

While this is a step in the right direction, the new heading sounds ...
strange.

The right solution is to have:

   Math Functions
     Exponential
     Trigonometric

Or, even better:

   Math Functions and Constants
     Constants
     Functions
         Exponential
         Trigonometric

While it is possible, presenting pi as a function seems weird and unnatural.
Following this path we should have:

  math:one()
  math:zero()
  math:two()
  math:e()
  math:pi()
  math:ten()

Then, the next step would be to forbid writing:1, 0, 2, 10, or considering this
unnatural.

Going in this direction would be considered wrong by most programmers and may
hurt the serious adoption of XPath, XQuery and XSLT.

Dimitre Novatchev

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Received on Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:54:48 UTC