[xquery-talk] Order of results

[David Carlisle]

On 05/11/2010 10:14, Michael Kay wrote:
> I think the "," was in a subexpression to the FLWOR, wasn't it?
>
> for $i in 1 to 2 return ('a','b')
>
> can return any permutation of ('a','b','a','b'), I believe.

oh can it? I read it as meaning the tuple-things can be returned in any 
order so you here you can process the two tuples in either order, but 
each returns ('a','b') (in that order) so putting that together you get
('a','b','a','b')


you read it as saying that an unordered flwor can re-order the entire 
returned sequence arbitrarily. Hmm perhaps the spec should make that 
clearer (one way or the other).

David


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