V.next design goals

What's the point of V.next? Or as Jim put it, what are the guiding
principles?

1. Improving ease of use (syntactic improvements)
2. Improving ease of use (increasing the scope: non XML content, for example)
3. Addressing known shortcomings in the language

Do those look reasonable? Are there others? Are any of those irrelevant?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
Lead Engineer
MarkLogic Corporation
Phone: +1 413 624 6676
www.marklogic.com