Re: WIP: default values for function parameters

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Le 12 déc. 08 à 15:57, Gregory Stark a écrit :
> These don't solve anything. There's nothing stopping you from
> defining a unary
> prefix operator => or =

That's why I'm preferring the common-lisp syntax of :param value, or
its variant param: value.

> 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, with the exception of function argument list, beginning with
( and ending with ) and where parameters are separated by ,. Maybe
some : in there would shock users.
  SELECT foo(a, b, c);  SELECT foo(a, :c 5);  SELECT foo(a, c: 5);

Not so much new punctuation characters there, 1 out of 4.
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