Re: p:input doppelgangers

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Norman Walsh writes:

> |  p:iteration-source
> |    (p:empty | (p:pipe | p:document | p:inline )+ )?
> |
> |    That is, exactly as p:input, because p:for-each is like a step with
> |    sequence in and out, and should be allowed to be forced to iterate
> |    no times and produce an empty sequence.
>
> What's the point of writing a loop that explicitly iterates 0 times?
> Putting p:empty seems entirely pointless to me and more likely an
> error than not.

Well, it's not an error to get an empty sequence coming in from a
pipe, is it?  This is certainly not a big deal, I just think the fewer
exceptions to the general rule the better -- p:empty is almost always
going to be a corner case.

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Received on Thursday, 5 July 2007 09:00:44 UTC