On Dec 11, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:07 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> > >> It seems many things use the "?" alone as the unnamed placeholder, >> but >> I only saw MySQL using ?name for named placeholders. It does seem >> like a nicer syntax rather than using a different character. >> Perhaps, >> we should follow pgsql and use "$" and "$name", since "$" is >> already a >> marker for replacement vars in Pd. I suppose that could get >> confusing >> in something like: >> >> >> SELECT id, ABS(($duration - $1)/$2) AS error FROM datatable ORDER BY >> error LIMIT 1 >> > > I vote that we use "?" as a placeholder, and only support unnamed > placeholders. We can use this to convert to whatever the db-specific > placeholder system is inside the external.
I am ok with using ?name for placeholders, but I think we should also support the plain ? with the list input. I am fine if that happens later tho. I'd like to get something working soon, we've done a lot of talking :). .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Using ReBirth is like trying to play an 808 with a long stick. - David Zicarelli _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
