Re: [xsl] Random UUID in pure XSLT?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Random UUID in pure XSLT?
From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:04:01 -0000
On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 15:41 +0000, Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Is this the internet messing with functional programming definitions
> / terms?
> B For UUID it would seem that is wanted (if not needed), either via an
> extension
> as Mike has done, or via a non-functional call (same as non-
> deterministic?).
> 
> Has this never come up in WG discussions?

Well, uuid didn't come up in XQuery that i recall. At one point i did
raise wanting a random number function, in order to have the WG discuss
impure functions; the chair ruled that writing a random number function
was easy for any user to write, and i wasn't in a place at the time to
be confrontational about it.

It turned out later that not having worked out some of the details
around impure functions bit us badly later with modules and XQuery
update.

Liam


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