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RE: Effective boolean value is not defined for a seque

Subject: RE: Effective boolean value is not defined for a sequence of two or more items starting with a numeric value
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:20:09 +0100
RE:  Effective boolean value is not defined for a seque
> It is intuitive though (to me at least), that a predicate 
> containing [1, 3, 5] would select the first , third and fifth 
> items in the sequence...

We did try quite hard to define an overloading of the [] operator to accept
a sequence of integers. It proved quite problematic because of corner cases
like [1,2,3,true()].

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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