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Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 courses?

2020-09-21 09:30:20
semantics? car of a list vs car of an expanded list (atomised)?

regards

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 15:08, Wendell Piez wapiez(_at_)wendellpiez(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

Hi,

Aside from the name question (I'd maybe like first-available()?) the question 
arises, what would be the difference between first-defined(($a,$b,$c)) and 
head(($a,$b,$c)) or ($a,$b,$c) => head() as the case may be?

Cheers, Wendell


On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 9:41 AM Graydon graydon(_at_)marost(_dot_)ca 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:25:56PM -0000, Chris Papademetrious 
christopher(_dot_)papademetrious(_at_)synopsys(_dot_)com scripsit:
Good point. Perhaps this could be handled by chaining them?

$a otherwise $b otherwise $c otherwise $default

I think "otherwise" is fine for the pair case!

It's clearer and easier to read than ($a,$b)[1] and it'll be easier to
search for in documentation.

Chaining otherwise as you propose doesn't strike me as clearer or easier
to read; the location of the implicit parentheses is extremely important
in that example and as soon as the values are the least bit complex all
the parens will likely need to be made explicit.

On the other hand, we've already got a concept of sequence, and commas,
so ($a,$b,$c,$default) => first-defined()

strikes me as clearer and easier to read than chaining "otherwise".
Could even add a two-parameter version so the second parameter defines
how to handle values which are false(). :)

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