Re: Range Expressions

I'm going to stick with "by" for the time being. I prefer adverbs and conjunctions as operators, rather than verbs and nouns. We're not 100% consistent with this principle (intersect, union) but adverbs always read better (A except B) if available.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 30 Nov 2020, at 17:49, gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de wrote:
> 
> step by step
> 
> (ooh, baby)
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> https://youtu.be/ay6GjmiJTPM <https://youtu.be/ay6GjmiJTPM>
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> To: public-xslt-40@w3.org, "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
> Sent: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:48
> Subject: Re: Range Expressions
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> "by-step" ?
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> On 30 Nov 2020, 16:46 +0000, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>, wrote:
>> On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 15:08 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
>>> From
>>> 
>>> http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html#CntrFlowLoop
>>> 
>>> both "by" and "step" are used in multiple languages. 
>> 
>> Well, the bikeshed should be... er i mean.. we should probably avoid
>> anything that implies procedural looping, so i'd vote for "every"
>> except that "every" might create an ambiguity in the grammar.
>> 
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