RE: questionable syntax choices for XQuery

It may not be to late, but you need to send it to the right email list
:-)

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of
> Xavier Franc
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: questionable syntax choices for XQuery
> 
> 
> 
> Some personal remarks about the semicolon separator between
declarations:
> 
> - it has been added silently in November (not listed in change list)
>   that's not nice for implementers...
> 
> - I have never understood the necessity of this change.
>   Is there some subtle lexical issue that I dont see ?
> 
>   actually this separator is optional in my own implementation
>   and I never noticed any parsing problem.
> 
> - I agree with Jason that making parser writing easier
>   is not a good justification for such a change.
> 
> 
> Is it too late for suggesting to make the separator optional ?