Re: References in XPath that can be represented byastringandstill can be garbage collected

>> Then isn't it simpler to introduce a mutable reference and
>> allow statefull logic like in this pseudo code:
>
> Anything that introduces stateful logic will complicate the semantics of 
> the
> language dramatically. It basically means that you have to start defining


I was trying to push merits of "Resource Manager".

> rules for the order of evaluation of expressions - all expressions.

Not all expressions.
The rules are the same as for expressions deriving their values from node 
identity.
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