Re: [SPAM?]: Re: proposal sql: labeled function params

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 10:51 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Saturday, 16. August 2008 schrieb Hannu Krosing:
> > A "label" is the same thing as "variable"/"attribute"/"argument name" in
> > all  programming languages I can think of. Why do you need two kinds of
> > argument names in postgreSQL ?
> >
> > maybe you are after something like keyword arguments in python ?
> >
> > http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html#SECTION006720000000000000000
> >
> > keyword arguments are a way of saying that you don't know all variable
> > names (or "labels" if you prefer) at function defining time and are
> > going to pass them in when calling.
> 
> I think we are beginning to talk about the same thing.  (Meaning you and me -- 
> not sure about the rest. :) )

Yes, I noticed that. Maybe we are onto something ;)

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Hannu