RE: [xsl] Re: Reference to variable cannot be resolved.

Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: Reference to variable cannot be resolved.
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:26:38 -0000
> I think the biggest problem here is that the scope of a 
> variable is no longer obvious in these cases. This will also 
> impose an (hidden) order of evaluation, which is not the most 
> desirable feature for a non-imperative language.

The second sentence is nonsense. Variable references are resolved to
variable declarations at compile time, the run-time behavior doesn't
care in the slightest what the original name of the variable was.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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