[xquery-talk] Functional XPath commands

[Ihe Onwuka]

No I'm a fan of type inference suffering from an XSLT hangover.

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Michael Sokolov
<msokolov at safaribooksonline.com> wrote:
> If you're a big fan of implicit type casts, you might want to take a look at
> JavaScript.  This movie https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat has
> some pretty funny examples (see, eg [] + [], [] + {}, {} + {}, etc. -- none
> of them ends up being what you might expect).
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On 1/26/14 12:53 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>>
>> and it came to pass that the innocuous looking conditional in the  if
>> statement demands that @firstpage is cast to xs:integer before it will
>> work lest there be complaints of unTypedAtomic (or whatever it said)
>> comparisons with xs:integer.
>>
>> What is the pourquoi of this. Why no type promotion (or is it
>> downcasting) in effect here. What could be simpler than comparing to
>> 0.
>>
>> Verily twas a tough spot, I went through every other conditional in
>> the program first because it looked to me like the least likely
>> suspect.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I have just written
>>>
>>> if (@firstpage eq 0) then floor($totalPagesDecimal) else
>>> ceiling($totalPagesDecimal)
>>>
>>> but how close would
>>>
>>> (floor,ceiling)[@firstpage + 1]($totalPagesDecimal) have been
>>>
>>> I'm guessing  I would at least have to put some function invoking
>>> paraphenalia around the calls to floor and ceiling (hopefully not).
>>
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