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Re: Functional programming in XSLT
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Functional programming in XSLT
- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche dot ogbuji at fourthought dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:35:16 -0700
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> Jeni Tennison wrote:
>
> > That's one vote for exsl:result (Uche) and one vote for exsl:return
> > (you). Any other opinions?
>
> Is it doing something or being something? Is it to be viewed as an
> instruction to the processor to perform a return, or as a statement that
> at this point we are seeing some value? If that decision is impossible
> or the answer ambiguous, ummm ... avoid the issue: "exsl:return-value"
> could be read as imperative by those who want imperative and as nominal
> by those who want nominal :-)
I actually like this dodge.
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