| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Grzegorz Jaskiewicz" <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: default values for function parameters |
| Date: | 2008-12-12 15:03:34 |
| Message-ID: | 4E7A778E-8F2E-4717-8BD3-3A7D63CA8DEB@kineticode.com |
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On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> In any case this is all weird. SQL isn't C and doesn't have random
> bits of
> punctuation involved in syntax. It uses whole words for just about
> everything.
> Anything you do using punctuation characters is going to look out of
> place.
Well, what do databases other than Oracle (which uses =>) do? What's
likely to end up in the standard?
Best,
David
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