Re: Random UUID in pure XSLT?
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On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 15:41 +0000, Dave Pawson [email protected] wrote: > Is this the internet messing with functional programming definitions > / terms? > For UUID it would seem that is wanted (if not needed), either via an > extension > as Mike has done, or via a non-functional call (same as non- > deterministic?). > > Has this never come up in WG discussions? Well, uuid didn't come up in XQuery that i recall. At one point i did raise wanting a random number function, in order to have the WG discuss impure functions; the chair ruled that writing a random number function was easy for any user to write, and i wasn't in a place at the time to be confrontational about it. It turned out later that not having worked out some of the details around impure functions bit us badly later with modules and XQuery update. Liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org --~---------------------------------------------------------------- XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list EasyUnsubscribe: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/unsub/xsl-list/3329386 or by email: [email protected] --~--