Re: Empty sequences in "for" clause bindings

According to the Formal Semantics (section FOR expressions)
<quote>
The evaluation of a for expression distinguishes two cases: If the iteration 
expression Expr1 evaluates to the empty sequence, then the entire expression 
evaluates to the empty sequence:
dynEnv |- Expr1 => ()
dynEnv |- for VarRef1 TypeDeclaration? in Expr1 return Expr2 => ()
</quote>

Since the expression you mentioned is normalized into two separate for loops, 
you will get the empty sequence as a result.

Best,
Ph

On Thursday 08 July 2004 18:58, Stéphane Mbaye wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> how “for” clause tuples are generated when some of the bounded variables
> match the empty sequence ?
>
> For example should the following query return (1, 2, 3), an error or
> anything else ?
>
> for $a in (), $b in (1, 2, 3)
> return ($a, $b)
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Stéphane
> Mbaye
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