[Xpath-ng] Proposal for definition of values/lists

[David Rosenborg]

Robin wrote:

> I have concerns that this might make the language harder to remember. If I
feed
> a list to a function, I generally don't want to look up the function's docs
to
> know whether it'll understand (('foo')) as (<list>), as ('foo'), or as 'foo'.

Just because singelton lists aren't handled transparently, it doesn't mean that
functions will treat lists inconsistently or nonintuitive. Also, refering to
standard conversion functions, as Jeni suggested, will help.

Cheers,
David