Re: Further thoughts on enabling unprefixed function calls from Dave Pawson on 2020-11-30 (public-xslt-40@w3.org from November 2020)

From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:08:47 +0000
To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Cc: public-xslt-40@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAEncD4ci5OsrU1N_woRqXLBo6wuCcqG3MXmG9WxBkB7h0YT-Uw@mail.gmail.com>

Understood.
  Shame.

regards

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 14:07, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
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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.
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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