- From: Geert Josten <geert.josten@dayon.nl>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:07:49 +0200
- To: Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
- Cc: Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <josteinaj@gmail.com>, XProc Dev <xproc-dev@w3.org>
Hi Florent, What Jostein describes isn't really syntactic sugar, it is just another way of declaring custom steps. Or to be more precise, have the ability to inject external functionality into something else. It really is much alike higher order functions, perhaps just more than you realized.. ;-) > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: fgeorges@gmail.com [mailto:fgeorges@gmail.com] Namens Florent > Georges > Verzonden: vrijdag 19 juli 2013 16:48 > Aan: Geert Josten > CC: Jostein Austvik Jacobsen; XProc Dev > Onderwerp: Re: custom non-atomic steps? > > On 18 July 2013 19:53, Geert Josten wrote: > > Hi, > > > Clear, thnx! Interesting feature indeed. A bit like passing through any > > function to some (custom) general wrapping function. XQuery already > went > > that far, just a matter of time before XSLT and XProc will follow.. ;-) > > Mmh, I am not sure to understand. It looks to me like you're > talking about higher-order functions, but I am not sure really (sorry > if I am mislead then). But here, we are talking about syntactic > extensibility, and XQuery does not provide anything like that. This > looks more like a macro-level feature to me. > > PS: By the way, the XQuery and XSLT WGs defined the OHFs at the > XPath level together... :-) > > Regards, > > -- > Florent Georges > http://fgeorges.org/ > http://h2oconsulting.be/
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