On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 20:00 +0000, David Carlisle
d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > position()+1 directly. Why can't I use position()+1 directly?
>
> [...] with a numeric value is short for [position()=...] so [
> position()+1] is short for [position()=position()+1] which is not an
> error
> but is always false.
In particular, $sock[12] looks like an array index in many other
languages, but isn't.
Watching the mistakes people make, and understanding them, really gives
good understanding at times :)
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