29671 2016-05-27 11:29:55 +0000 [Fo31] fn:random-number-generator 2016-07-21 13:56:14 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT Functions and Operators 3.1 Candidate Recommendation PC Windows NT CLOSED FIXED https://www.w3.org/XML/Group/qtspecs/specifications/xpath-functions-31/html/Overview.html#func-random-number-generator P2 normal --- 1 tim mike andrew_coleman public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 126607 0 tim 2016-05-27 11:29:55 +0000 Can we please change the signature of fn:random-number-generator($seed as xs:anyAtomicType) as map(xs:string, item()) to fn:random-number-generator($seed as xs:anyAtomicType?) as map(xs:string, item()) such that a call of fn:random-number-generate( () ) is equivalent to calling fn:random-number-generator(). in keeping the convention often used in F&O? 126609 1 tim 2016-05-27 11:47:54 +0000 On closer inspection, this isn't the convention at all. Please ignore. 126610 2 tim 2016-05-27 11:52:29 +0000 Actually, this does make sense, since it provides a way to use the unary function to "choose a seed that is likely to be different from one execution scope" as per the zero-arity version. 126726 3 andrew_coleman 2016-06-10 14:30:19 +0000 At the meeting on 2016-06-07, the WG agreed to resolve this as follows: RESOLVED: to adopt the proposal in bug 29671 to make random-number-generator#1 accept an empty sequence as argument, with the behavior being the same as for random-number-generator#0. Actions A-645-01 and A-645-02 were raised to track this. 126741 4 tim 2016-06-13 08:53:47 +0000 Tests have been added. I've presumed that the text will make it clear that a call fn:generate() is exactly equivalent to a call to fn:generate( () ) in the sense that they will generate exactly the same random sequence, e.g. such that fn:generate()?number eq fn:generate( () )?number