Interesting discussion on typing and "non-determinism"

Right now there is a very interesting discussion about typing and
"non-determinism" of functional languages on the base of XQuery.

For me it is clear that those, who find "non-determinism" in a functional
language and object to it actually object to the side-effects-free nature of
a functional language.

The thread is called "XQuery" and started at:

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2003Oct/0077.html



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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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