[Xpath-ng] More list issues

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Probably this is already on Jeni's mind, but if we have
> the function list (...) as a list constructor, I guess we
> need another function for standard conversion to lists:
> to-list (object), or as-list (object) or similar. I think we've
> touched this before but I was just wondering about the
> name which would be a little bit inconsistent with the other
> conversion functions. But maybe it's not a big problem.

I agree with this possible inconsistency.  I did give one option for list 
syntax that would minimize the need for a list constructor:

()
(1,)
(1,2)

etc.

I don't think I've heard any reaction to this.

In any case, I would like list() to be reserved for conversion to lists, and 
if we need a list constructor, we can always come up with

new-list()
make-list()
list-items()

Or something like.


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