Re: itemType for list

James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> writes:

> 5.1.2 says "A list datatype must be derived from an atomic or a list
> datatype, known as the itemType of the list datatype", which allows
> lists of lists but not lists of unions.  I don't understand how it makes
> sense to have a list of a list. I also don't understand why you can't
> have a list of a union.

I'm pretty sure that's a typo due to be fixed, thanks.

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