On 17/06/2011 13:30, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 17.06.2011 18:19, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: >> FB_MESSAGE(Message, >> (FB_SMALLINT, smallInt0) >> (FB_INTEGER, integer0) >> (FB_BIGINT, bigInt0) >> (FB_SCALED_BIGINT(3), bigInt3) >> (FB_VARCHAR(10), str10) >> ) >> >> Comments? > With GPRE you don't even need to care about types, it will get it > automatically from > DB, so - what's the point to change one preprocessor for another? > - Our users are not using GPRE, or they're not using the features introduced in the last 10 years. - Our users do not want to use GPRE instead of write they code directly - GPRE has nothing to do with external routines. - Some external preprocessor may be created for external routines, but again, this is not what our users want. - It's macros, but what? It's simple, and do a lot of hard work. - It's in the discussed direction of making the Firebird API message based.
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