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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> changed:
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--- Comment #10 from C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> ---
On the joint call of 25 November I took an action to try to work out a simple
use case for the fn:apply() function requested by the OP, as sketched by
Michael Kay in [1] and as commented on by John Snelson in [2].
[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xsl-query/2014Nov/0019.html
[2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xsl-query/2014Nov/0026.html
I have posted the results separately to the public QT comments list [3], to
avoid overburdening a Bugzilla comment.
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2014Nov/0115.html
In that mail, I provide examples of the use of fn:apply() as sketched in [1]
for currying functions, for composing functions, and for use in meta-circular
interpreters.
The bottom line is that while I agree with Michael Kay and John Snelson that
variable-arity functions would be handy, and would make fn:apply() more useful
and convenient, I believe that it's useful enough to be included in the spec
even without variable-arity functions.
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