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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:52:01 -0600, bryan rasmussen
<rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hmm, not sure if I would classify Xquery as a functional language. Declarative, sure, I guess query languages tend to be, but not sure about the functional. Why do you say it is? I agree that one could argue that XQuery is not a purely functional programming language, but none-the-less, for all intents and purposes its a functional language, e.g. @ http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/414/chamberlin.pdf <quote> XQuery is a functional language comprised of several kinds of expressions that can be nested and composed with full generality. </quote> If not mistaken, the XQuery spec *used* to start off with something similar to the above, but it seems it got cut from the final spec. Maybe for a reason? -- /M:D M. David Peterson http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155
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