Hi all, Arjen's comment on facebook got me thinking about how much I don't like the LENGTH() function because it's ambiguous -- is it byte length, or char length? I've griped on this issue in other languages too, particularly PHP, and had to explain to a number of people that bytes != chars, an issue which is in my opinion clouded by LENGTH().
Also, I'm not a fan of the function name OCTET_LENGTH... "byte" is a much more commonly used term ;) So... I'm thinking of removing LENGTH() so that one must explicitly use BYTE_LENGTH() or CHAR_LENGTH(). What does everyone think? - Devananda _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
