- From: Gary Hallmark <gary.hallmark@ORACLE.COM>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:05:47 -0700
- To: Christian de Sainte Marie <csma@ilog.fr>
- CC: RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
NAU for external functions means that you give each arg a name and pass arguments using (arg-name, arg-value) pairs. I guess we could have done that for DTB but we didn't; we use positional arguments instead. (It might be kind of nice to have meaningful argument names in the XML RIF document that a consumer receives) I see no reason to deviate from BLD on this point. Because I expect many implementations to restrict their usage of external functions to those defined in DTB, and because DTB does not use NAU, I expect this will be a rarely used feature (in BLD and PRD) Christian de Sainte Marie wrote: > Gary, > > Gary Hallmark wrote: >>> >>> #4: include NAU in PRD FPWD, add an editor's note and raise an issue >>> (was: option 2 in [1]). > > I was implementing that when I noticed that, according to the PS, an > external TERM (that is, an external function call) could also have > named arguments. > > Is this really what you want? It does not make sense to me (in the > proper sense: I do not understand what it means), but if this is what > you want, I will put it in PRD FPWD (and I will assume that you know > what it means, of course :-) > > Cheers, > > Christian >
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