Re: Arrow operator and empty sequences

> This is probably intended, but if not, I wonder if an optimizing processor may evaluate the right-hand side of this operator and stop evaluation if it concludes it is the empty sequence.

I don’t think so, because there are many functions which provide
meaningful results other than empty sequences, even if the input is
empty (such as e.g. /one/two/three => count() ).

Christian

Received on Thursday, 17 December 2015 16:51:41 UTC