Re: HTTP client module

Florent Georges wrote:
> John Snelson wrote:
> |> [ ... about lazy evaluating item returned after http:request,
> |>   representing the entity body of each message's part ... ]
> 
>> In that case, lazy evaluation should be sufficient for
>> efficiency.  Results that aren't needed won't be evaluated.
> 
>   As I said, I do not think it is reasonable to rely on lazy
> evaluation while defining an *extension* function.  If there is a
> reason to take optimization into account at one point, I don't
> think we can just rely on lazy evaluation.
> 
>   That's just my impression.  Is it possible in XQilla?  Any
> other implementer about this?

That's certainly possible in XQilla. But I also get the impression that
EXSLT functions are often incorporated in an implementation, where lazy
evaluation or some kind of static analysis will be more readily available.

John

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