Re: Function naming: Problems and proposed solution

Interesting. To take a look at the special cases:

map:merge(a := 1) would probably return a map with a single entry?



Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> schrieb am Mi., 2. Dez. 2020, 17:07:

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> On 2 Dec 2020, at 11:27, Tom Hillman <tom@expertml.com> wrote:
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> serialize($x, method: 'json', indent: true())
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> 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
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> Search for "keyword arguments".
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> I'm liking it.
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> (I used ":=" rather than ":" as the punctuation, but it's easily changed)
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> There's a bug in the grammar -- it allows f( , a:= 3 ) -- but hey, it's a
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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