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Small editorial change to p:count #609

Closed ndw closed 2 months ago

ndw commented 2 months ago

I happened, randomly, to notice this sentence in the description of p:count:

This provides a convenient mechanism to discover, for example, if a sequence consists of more than 1 document, without requiring every single document to be buffered before processing can continue.

That reference to buffering and continuing is unjustified. I've changed it to:

This provides a convenient mechanism to discover, for example, if a sequence consists of more than 1 document, without requiring every document to be counted.

I'm not sure that's exactly true either (my implementation counts them all and then returns min($count,$limit)), but I think it's an improvement.