[xquery-talk] xquery 3.1 wishlist

[Christian Grün]

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

Doesn't that depend on the implementation? Functions may e.g. be
inlined and further compiled, and the evaluated expression may differ
a lot from the original expression.



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> 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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