[xquery-talk] Functional paradigm shift

Adam Retter adam.retter at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 11 15:11:47 PST 2013


I think the classic text is SICP (Structured Interpretation of Computer
Programs). This can be downloaded for free.

If you still do .Net stuff, maybe worth switching to F# to force you more
into a functional approach.

> For example I am doing this a lot:
>
> let $result := some-func()
> let $a := if($result eq 0)
> then()
> else(logger:log($result),error())
>
> It just doesn't feel right.

Sequences are the key. One approach is to just map/transform on sequences,
if you have an empty sequence then nothing happens, else you get the
expected result ;-)

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> -c
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