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On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:55 -0800, Daniela Florescu wrote:
> >
> > When you write XSLT, why is that not "hand-coded"?
>
> It's assembler-level "hand coding" vs. SQL-level "hand coding".
> Sure, you can see both as "hand coding" if you want...
>
> But do I really have to explain myself any further ?
Yes, of course.
I gave an example. You said:
for $x in //foobar
where some:predicate($x)
return my:function($x)
I gave the Python (with Amara library) equivalent:
[ myfunction(x) for x in root.xpath('//foobar') if somepredicate(x) ]
By what reasonable criteria can you call my version "assembler-level"
compared to yours?
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