Re: [xml-dev] RE: Declarative programming requires a different mindset

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 25/03/2010 16:32, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>  > A clearer distinction is whether or not the program involves mutable
> state variables.
> Since XSLT variables don't vary, are all XSLT programs declarative?
>
> Surely that's not the case.

Basically yes. It's much more useful to apply the "imperative" or 
"functional" adjectives to programming languages than to individual 
programs.


>
> Would someone give an example of XSLT code that is clearly imperative?


Anything using saxon:assign


> /Roger
>


David

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