It's what I expected. I haven't seen a rational explanation to expect
anything different.

If it doesn't do that it's ok, but I wouldn't expect a language to give an
error where it could do something different.

The spec might say this will give you an error unless f you type it with
one hand while somebody is giving you a Chinese burn.

Ok thats what you have to live by, but don't have a go at someone for
trying to figure out why it makes sense.


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I expect it to be atomized for the previously given reasons.
>
> It's a common expectation, but it's wrong. There is nothing in the spec
> that encourages you to have such an expectation; you're just saying that if
> you had designed the language, you would have done it differently.
>
> When the spec talks about an atomic value being expected, it's talking
> about expectations that are informed by reading the spec, not expectations
> based on how you would have liked the language to behave.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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