[Xpath-ng] More list issues

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Uche wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In its defense, this is the system used by Python, and I don't think I've 
> > heard it to cause any confusion once it has been explained.
> > 
> 
> And the syntax it's equaly odd there.
> 
> > I do think we should come up with a syntactic solution to this, rather than a 
> > list constructor in the core.
> 
> The rationale for not having a special list constructor syntax is that most lists
> will be created as the result of calling other funtions or location path
> expressions.

So do you think we could do without a list constructor in the core?  And 
list() is purely a conversion?


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