Hi Rob, no - this is no bug, as a map *is* a (special kind) of function.

[Definition: A map is a function that associates a set of keys with values, resulting in a collection of key / value pairs.]

In other words, the expression

map{'p':'test'} instance of function(*)

MUST yield true, as it does in BaseX, as it does with Saxon.

Kind regards,

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Rob Stapper <r.stapper@lijbrandt.nl> schrieb am 14:51 Samstag, 25.Juli 2015:

Hi,

I encountered a little but nasty to find hick-up in the typeswitch command.

One would expect the code below to return: “map”.

It returns: “function”.

Looks like a bug to me.

typeswitch( map { 'p' : 'test'})

case function(*) return 'function'

case map(*) return 'map'

default return 'other'

Rob Stapper

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