| From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal |
| Date: | 2003-03-14 18:03:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20030314180316.260355386B@cbbrowne.com |
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> Do you really think someone looking for a function to break up a
> string into a list of strings would ever think of looking up "explode"
> in an index if he hadn't already used PHP or (shudder) VBScript?
It's also one of the classic examples of things used in introductory
courses on Lisp that are absolutely counterproductive because no one
would ever use (EXPLODE FOO) in /real/ code...
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