On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 00:18 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev
dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
The W3C F&O 3.1 spec (at
https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#func-filter ) says:
Rules
The effect of the function is equivalent to the following
[...]
Because "equivalent" means the two functions must produce the same
result
for for all possible values in the same set of arguments,
That is one possible definition of "equivalent" but it is not the one
used in the Functions and Operators document...
You can never guarantee that two expressions are equivalent in your
sense, because of "errors and optimization". Any construct might raise
an error - in the case of this example, stack overflow if the recursion
gets too deep.
Liam
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