Re: Reference and First-Class Function

Dimitre Novatchev <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:55:47 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xslt.extensions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > ...
> > the fact that HOF have been implemented *without* extensions long ago),
> >  
> This is quite true for XSLT, but not for XPath or (perhaps more importantly) 
> XQuery.

As I said, it is OK for anyone to propose extensions for HOFs (or for anything else).

What is incorrect is to assume HOFs are a precondition for implementing references.

Thanks,
Dimitre