| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: column names and dollar sign |
| Date: | 2017-05-18 00:22:43 |
| Message-ID: | b1478e7a-f0c9-67bc-ca5b-69a138add45c@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 18/05/17 11:59, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/17/2017 4:51 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> Variables ending in '$' date back to at least the early days of BASIC
>> - long before the spectre of Microsoft loomed large, let alone
>> 'Visual Basic'!
>
>
> I note even INT fields have $ names there... IBM used to like to use
> $ in names for system stuff, SYS$BLAHBLAH or whatever.
>
>
Names ending in % were integers.
The BASIC I'm most familiar with was BBC BASIC as on the BBC MIcro and
the Acorn Archimedes.
Visual Basic is the only language I've ever written a program in that I
could not get to run - it should NEVER have had BASIC as part of its names.
Cheers,
Gavin
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