[basex-talk] Historical reasons in the Database Module

Hello

I once again ran into giving the arguments in wrong order to the db:replace function. The docs state, that "For historical reasons, the order of the 2nd and 3rd argument is different to db:add and db:create".

Since XQuery is typed, wouldn't it be possible to add to new "cosmetic" functions with the arguments in the "right" order like the following:

db:replace($db as xs:string, $input as item(), $path as xs:string) as empty-sequence() db:replace($db as xs:string, $input as item(), $path as xs:string, $options as map(*)?) as empty-sequence()

Since the arguments are typed with different types (xs:string vs item()) this over-loading would work without colliding with the historical and swapped ones. Am I wrong?

Cheers, Kristian K