Roland Bouman wrote: > Hi! > >> Bill Culp wrote: >>> Is Drizzle going to support that awful back tick quote `for non standard >>> object names like this`? >> Not sure. Opinions anyone? Certainly whoever tackles the blueprint >> below could look at this behaviour... > > Personally I would like to see the backtick banned, and (in accordance > with the standard) the single quote for string delimiters and the > double quote for identifiers. > > That said, I know quite a few people feel that they should be able to > use both the double quote and single quote as string delimiters. > (At least, I raised the issue once on IRC and that seemed to be the > general opinion at the time.)
Yup. I'm one of those people. :) > So if the backtick is to be removed, and people still want to use both > double quotes and single quotes for string delimiters, then that means > you either drop support for quoted identifiers, or introduce a new > (non-standard) delimiter for identifiers. (Neither of which seems > desirable to me) I would be most in favor of just getting rid of the facility of having quoted identifiers. It seems to me that it mostly just causes pain and suffering. Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
