Re: [xsl] Wishes for XSL revisions ...

Andrew Welch wrote:

2. If a variable cannot be changed after it has been assigned, why call it a variable? Ive read the reasoning behind this, and yes strictly it is a variable, but a more appropriate name would make sense. The above makes XSLT non-intuitive, and therefore harder to learn.

Hey, you are dealing with almost pure functional programming language, try to grasp main idiom "assignment is considered harmful". See "Programming without Assignment Statements" chapter in Mike Kay's book.

Is there

another language where you cannot change the value of a variable?

A lot.


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[xsl] Wishes for XSL revisions ... Gunther Schadow - Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:58:33 -0500 Trevor Nash - Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:23:22 +0000 Andrew Welch - Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:41:45 -0000 Oleg Tkachenko - Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:59:28 +0200 <= Trevor Nash - Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:34:41 +0000 Andrew Welch - Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:10:49 -0000 Wendell Piez - Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:03:48 -0500 Mark Nahabedian - Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:47:22 -0500

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[xsl] Wishes for XSL revisions ...
- Gunther Schadow - Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:58:33 -0500
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