Magic features of programming languages

2011-05-20 Thread Martin C.Martin
Hi all, When a construct is ambiguous, sometimes language designers will provide a default which (they hope) does the right thing in the common case. An example is XPath. When = is called on two sets, the semantics are that there is at least one pair of elements (one from each set) that

Re: Magic features of programming languages

2011-05-20 Thread Martin C.Martin
Best, Martin Original Message Subject:Re: Magic features of programming languages Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:31:53 -0400 From: John Daughtry j...@daughtryhome.com To: Martin C.Martin mar...@martincmartin.com I don't have a reference, but a more general example