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On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Joe Wicentowski <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a major bone to pick with the XQuery working group and all users of > the language, who must all be insane. > > When I'm trying to write a program in XQuery and it isn't working, I need to > blow off steam with a pissed off comment in the code right where the error > message appears. So I write my comment: > >>:( XQuery makes no sense to me!!! ):< > > But this raises new errors! So I try a different comment syntax: > >>:^( GRRRR! )v:< > > And another error appears! > > Why doesn't XQuery understand my comments? Change it now or I will never > cease to complain. > > Oh, and I'm not interested in code samples showing the correct syntax for > comments or explanations about the origins of whatever crazy comment syntax > they came up with. > > One final note to anyone who tries to be helpful: Shove it! > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 18, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Adam Retter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>> You know full well that the design isn't going to be improved in a >>>>> subsequent release unless there's an issue that's a real stopper, >>>>> because people expect backwards compatibility. >>>> >>>> http://exist.2174344.n4.nabble.com/Signature-of-fn-filter-doesn-t-look-like-it-conforms-to-the-spec-td4662991.html >>> >>> I am not sure that this is making the point you think it is! >> >> It does. >> >>> snipped >> >> >>> >>> Anyway, I am sure you realise that you could write your own function >>> in XSLT, let's call it 'doc-or-empty' and use it in place of doc to >>> achieve exactly what you want. >> >> Yes and I have no intention of doing so. >> >> See the original post here. >> >> http://exist.2174344.n4.nabble.com/Why-does-it-think-the-variable-is-not-set-tc4663027.html#none >> >> I knew that parenthesising the return expression would fix the problem >> but I didn't know why. Wolfgang's answer told me. >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] >> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
