RE: Meaning of "enumeration" and "pattern" in xs:list

> The items within a list have an order, as indicated by the statement
> 
>     The ˇvalue spaceˇ of a ˇlistˇ datatype is a set of finite-length
>     sequences of ˇatomicˇ values.
> 
> in its use of the word "sequence".

Ah yes, thanks.  I'm less confused now.   Lists are unordered, but not their
item occurrences.  

Actually, my original question was even more stupid:  I thought Henry meant
list items were ordered *by value*.  That was a shocker.  I realized later
that wasn't what he meant.

Received on Monday, 2 June 2003 14:15:41 UTC