- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:00:17 -0500
- To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Cc: public-xslt-40@w3.org
On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 18:14 +0000, Michael Kay wrote: > I think the bar for new syntax should be much higher than the bar for > new functions. Although there might be concerns about "using up" the > available space of function names, the space available for functions > is vastly greater than the space available for new operators, and we > shouldn't use it where a (higher order) function can do the job. Overall i agree, and especially about discoverability. But you are in effect proposing new syntax with named arguments. -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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