Re: proposal sql: labeled function params

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. :) )