Re: Further thoughts on enabling unprefixed function calls

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> So many languages use period, that's why I favour it?
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Yes, but XML has screwed us on that. Period is an allowed character in names, so $date.year() is legal in 3.1, it is a call on a function held in the variable whose name is "date.year". It's not a question of user view versus implementor view, it's a question of backwards compatibility.

Michael Kay
Saxonica