Hello, "an empty string should be false" strongly disagree, a NULL string should be solely false, now in this case, the question is: comparisons should be handled as bin or by; 'literal' values? or equality/comparison must not be eval'ed and strictly made on type?
one other of the quirk would be to cast to a float, ugly I might admit. Best. On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:14 PM, James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org>wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2014 21:09:46 +0200 > Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On May 2, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm guessing that Mr. Abeille is upset that SQLite ? > > > > ? doesn?t even bother with SQL syntax and will happily accept any old > > junk as a sorry excuse for a query. > > > > select 1 where null; > > select 1 where not null; > > > > When SQLite 4 sees the light of the day, I wish for a strict SQL > > parser and proper error messages. > > To amplify the point, the issue isn't pure fussiness or obligation to > adhere to standards. A permissive parser invites error. > > It's not hard to imagine > > select 1 where 1 - 1; > > was intended as > > select 1 where 1 = 1; > > which, in the midst of a large query producing expected results, might > easily be overlooked. > > I doubt Petite is confused by boolean evaluation, but rather is > dismayed by its appearance in this context. > > SQL is not C. To the extent the SQL supplied by SQLite is nonstandard, > it might as well be another language entirely. The better one knows > SQL, the harder a nonconformant implementation is to use. > > Not long ago I was helping someone with a query in MS Access. Easy, > just use a correlated subquery in an update statement. Hard, if > it chokes the parser. Perhaps you know the joke with the punchline, > "Assume a can opener." > > --jkl > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
