> On 28 Aug 2017, at 21:57, Dimitre Novatchev <> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Michael Kay <> wrote:
>> Yes: perhaps this could be the shortest EXPath spec ever. Just define a binding of the op prefix to the namespace http://expath.org/ns/operators and you're done.
>>
>
> Yes, but the name
>
> op:numeric-add()
>
> seems prohibitively-long and inconvenient. Kinda Hungarian notation ...
>
> Compare to Haskell' section
> (https://wiki.haskell.org/Section_of_an_infix_operator):
>
> (+)
>
> Seems like there is definitely considerable space for improvement
>
Two problems with that: (a) it would need syntax extensions rather than just a function library, and (b) operators are polymorphic in a way that functions aren't (which is why we have the long names).
Michael Kay
Saxonica
