| From: | Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> |
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| To: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: make == as = ? |
| Date: | 2004-04-07 20:29:42 |
| Message-ID: | 200404071729.42650.martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar |
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El Mié 07 Abr 2004 06:28, Fabien COELHO escribió:
> > > > =? as != is a synonum for <>, it would make sense.
> > >
> > > That was never such a terribly good idea, IMHO.
> >
> > Agreed. Compilers should give errors and not try to work around bad code.
>
> Is it bad code? Not for people who come from a C/C++/Java background.
> They are used to operators such as == != % && || !... Some of these
> are available from pg, some are not, so at the time it is incoherent.
I have such a background, and still don't use != to ask for inequality. The
correct thing to use is <>, because thats what the SQL standards say.
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