Re: [xml-dev] Re: xml-dev Digest 24 Mar 2010 11:49:31 -0000 Issue2307

[David <dlee@calldei.com>]

I disagree that this specifies the order of execution.

>>  example 3: for i in 1..length(array) yield function(a[i])

The results must be in order but the execution need not.




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David A. Lee
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On 3/24/2010 10:25 AM, Nicholas Sushkin wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 March 2010 07:49:31 xml-dev-digest-help@lists.xml.org wrote:
>    
>> If yes, then anything which forces sequential processing is, by definition,
>> not declarative. Do you agree?
>>      
> I disagree. Declarative processing just defines what you need to compute
> without necessarily providing a sequential algorithm to do it. However, you
> may declare the process to be sequential.
>
> For example, all of the examples below are declarative ways to apply a
> function to each element of the array, but only the last one specifying the
> order of execution.
>
> example 1: map(function, array)
> example 2: foreach _ in array yield function(_);
> example 3: for i in 1..length(array) yield function(a[i])
>
>