"Michael" == Michael Kay <mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk> writes:
Michael> most of the definitions of the term "functional language"
Michael> do not require this concept, and are aligned with the way
Michael> the XPath spec uses the term.
Michael> See for example
Michael> http://www.google.com/search?q=define:functional+language
I looked. two definitions, neither of which are satisfied bu XPath.
Anyway, this "definition" of a functional language within the XPath
draft is not referred to anywhere else, so why not remove the
definition and just say that expressions can be nested with full generality?
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Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire