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From: "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
> > I see... How should the "shall" term be considered ? I don't have much
> > knowledge of the SQL specs language.
>
> "In the Syntax Rules, the term shall defines conditions that are
> required to be true of syntactically conforming SQL language."
>
> I think most people would write "must", although I think "shall" might be
> more correct.
>
This is common usage in requirements docs - I suspect it has a government,
perhaps a military origin. Even after vetting and helping to author a great
many requirements docs it still makes me cringe, but then I don't split
infinitives either ;-)
andrew