Re: [basex-talk] BaseX 10.7 and util:if (Christian Gr?n)
Christian, I really hope you will change your mind about this. In BaseX, as a function development environment, all structural constructs such as: “if then else” should be available as functions. Personally: as a functiondevelopmentjunky, I took a lot of effort replacing all ifThenElse-constructs into util:if-functions. I really would be disappointed if structural constructs aren’t available as functions in BaseX. Hope you’ll change your mind about this point. Regards, Rob Stapper Message: 4 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:45:31 +0100 From: Christian Gr?n <christian.gruen@gmail.com> To: Andy Bunce <bunce.andy@gmail.com> Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] BaseX 10.7 and util:if Message-ID: <CAP94bnMjeeXxsFBYVYjTJvJcSbGkzbxOnR99xNkpCv_oQ9GRWg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ?thanks for the pointer. I?ve revised the documentation. One property of util:if was that you could omit the argument for the else branch. We decided to drop util:if, because the specification now provides a new syntax for if expressions where the else branch is optional: if ($test) { $then } if ($test) { $then } else { $else } The ternary operator was temporarily added to the spec as an official feature, but we eventually dropped it again to reduce the number of different notations for existing features (unfortunately, the popular A ? B : C syntax was no option, as ? is already used for lookups). Sent from Mail for Windows From: basex-talk-request@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 12:00 PM To: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: BaseX-Talk Digest, Vol 167, Issue 7 -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com
…thanks, Rob, thanks Andy, for the inquiry. I think we can re-add the function, it shouldn’t cause problems. I learned over time that the best (and sometimes only) way to find out which features are used is to simply remove them… On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:07 PM Rob Stapper <r.stapper@lijbrandt.nl> wrote:
Christian,
I really hope you will change your mind about this. In BaseX, as a function development environment, all structural constructs such as: “if then else” should be available as functions. Personally: as a functiondevelopmentjunky, I took a lot of effort replacing all ifThenElse-constructs into util:if-functions. I really would be disappointed if structural constructs aren’t available as functions in BaseX.
Hope you’ll change your mind about this point.
Regards,
Rob Stapper
Message: 4
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:45:31 +0100
From: Christian Gr?n <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
To: Andy Bunce <bunce.andy@gmail.com>
Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] BaseX 10.7 and util:if
Message-ID:
< CAP94bnMjeeXxsFBYVYjTJvJcSbGkzbxOnR99xNkpCv_oQ9GRWg@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
?thanks for the pointer. I?ve revised the documentation.
One property of util:if was that you could omit the argument for the else
branch. We decided to drop util:if, because the specification now provides
a new syntax for if expressions where the else branch is optional:
if ($test) { $then }
if ($test) { $then } else { $else }
The ternary operator was temporarily added to the spec as an official
feature, but we eventually dropped it again to reduce the number of
different notations for existing features (unfortunately, the popular A ? B
: C syntax was no option, as ? is already used for lookups).
Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows
*From: *basex-talk-request@mailman.uni-konstanz.de *Sent: *Wednesday, November 22, 2023 12:00 PM *To: *basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de *Subject: *BaseX-Talk Digest, Vol 167, Issue 7
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> <#m_592359606519990792_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
participants (2)
-
Christian Grün -
Rob Stapper