[Versa] Versa issue: quote madness

[Chimezie Ogbuji]

> I think Chime was talking about using "<" as an operator as well (as
> short hand for the function)

Yeah I was suggesting operators as shorthands for gte,gt,lt,lte,eq,
and, or, neq,etc...
But, due to the use of '>' and '<' by traversal operators
gte/gt,lte/lt have akward replacements.  However, I think the boolean
operators (for 'and' and 'or' ) have more useful alternatives:

type(rss:item) - dc:date -> type(.) = xsd:date and gte('2001-01-01') 

or

type(rss:item) - dc:date -> type(.) = xsd:date and >= '2001-01-01'

instead of

type(rss:item) - dc:date -> and(eq(type(.),xsd:date),gte('2001-01-01'))

> 
> . - ns:age -> < 30 as opposed to . - ns:age -> lt(30)
> 
> That feels weird though
> 
> Mike
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