Re: Function naming: Problems and proposed solution

> On 2 Dec 2020, at 11:27, Tom Hillman <tom@expertml.com> wrote:
> 
> serialize($x, method: 'json', indent: true())
> 

I've had a go at speccing this up: see https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/blob/master/specifications/xquery-40/html/xpath-40-diff.html

Search for "keyword arguments".

I'm liking it.

(I used ":=" rather than ":" as the punctuation, but it's easily changed)

There's a bug in the grammar -- it allows f( , a:= 3 ) -- but hey, it's a first draft.

Michael Kay
Saxonica