Re: Extension candidates
"Michael Kay" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:39:37 -0000
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> > First two little questions (a bit OT here, sorry): 1/ it > seems it is > > not possible to create a function item from a dynamic > QName, is it on > > purpose? (I guess so), > > I hadn't thought about making it dynamic. The problem with > doing so would mainly be that the implementation could know > very little about the type of a function whose name was not > known at compile time. I think that making things dynamic/reflexive is a separate enhancement to the language: it's in the space of dyn:evaluate(). The two things shouldn't be confused. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/