[xquery-talk] xquery 3.1 wishlist

[W.S. Hager]

One more consideration: function calls seem to be more expensive than
inline expressions. And then there's that baggage of a custom library...

2015-06-28 14:35 GMT+02:00 W.S. Hager <wshager at gmail.com>:

> Hmm, I'm not so sure. The if/else clause is pretty short as it is, and
> semantically more clear. But it's another discussion altogether.
>
> For me the paint points remain in array support/semantics. I thought it
> best to let it rest for a while and see if the workarounds proof to be
> feasible. I think I was too eager to address this in the first place.
>
> Regards,
> Wouter
>
> 2015-06-28 0:07 GMT+02:00 Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com>:
>
>> > Personally I would also like to see a ternary operator, but I haven't
>> > mentioned it until now ;-)
>>
>> +1 ;) But if I remember right, it has already been motivated and
>> discussed in the group before.
>>
>> Talking about conditions: An if expression without 'else' branch would
>> often be nice as well (if not present, an empty sequence could be
>> returned).
>>
>>
>> > On 26 June 2015 at 12:18, W.S. Hager <wshager at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I've been working with the recent xquery 3.1 implementation in the
>> develop
>> >> branch eXist-db. I encountered some cases that were quite hard to work
>> >> around:
>> >>
>> >> - the lack of array:index-of()
>> >> - the lack of the iterator index in arrayfor-each and related
>> higher-order
>> >> functions
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps someone of the workgroup is available to discuss those cases.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Wouter
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