[xquery-talk] Random number generation : requirements

[Christian Grün]

> Yes, we don't have any machinery in the language semantics for declaring something as nondeterministic (easy to solve) or defining the semantics of how it should behave if thus annotated (much harder).
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> For example, if f() and g() are non-deterministic functions, how do we say in the spec that in the expression (f(), g()), f should be executed before g?

I see; so it seems to be related to questions (like the execution
order) that have also been discussed on the File Module

Thanks for the info,
Christian