Hi Rob, Your arguments are fine. I can confirm that the current behavior is buggy.
It's mostly due to limited resources that we haven't tackled this so far. We're spending a lot of time on implementing XQuery 4 features. Next, commercial requests need to be given priority. Sorry for that. Best, Christian Rob Stapper <r.stap...@lijbrandt.nl> schrieb am Di., 12. Sept. 2023, 11:11: > Hi Christian, > > > > I’ve addressed this issue already in feb 2022 and nov 2020. Since I think > it is a bug I am coming back on it again. Hopefully with a better > formulated argument this time. There is a easy workaround but if code is > generated, as in my case, having to change the code manually each time > after generation is getting pretty tedious. (and I very much like my code > to be consistent) > > > > So, why is it that a function-declaration of a function that is recursive > doesn’t trigger an self-depending-error and a variable-declaration that has > such a function assigned to, does? In the first situation preventing an > endless loop is, obviously and rightly so, treated as a programmers > responsibility. However in the second situation this responsibility is > taken away from the programmer by not even allowing the situation. This is > not consistent. Sure, the compiler should and does detect cyclic > variable-assignments but that is actually not the case here. Assigning a > function to a variable is per definition a non-cyclic assignment. Possible > recursiveness in this case should be treated the same as with a > function-declaration, that is, as a programmers responsibility. > > > > I hope the above makes some sense. Is it worth an effort to address this > issue? It would probably make the compiler code even less complex. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob Stapper > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > Virus-free.www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > <#m_5093193444413823270_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >
