On 17/07/10 23:36, Thom Brown wrote:
On 17 July 2010 21:30, Joseph Conway<[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/17/10 1:26 PM, Thom Brown wrote:
On 17 July 2010 21:23, Dave Page<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Thom Brown<[email protected]> wrote:
While they're quite attractive, I actually see them being more
confusing than helpful personally, but I could be wrong. I reckon
there might be clearer ways of representing statement options. The
real problems with the railroad design come when there are lots of
references to other diagrams, and you end up with about 10 just for 1
statement.
Is there a way of testing their usefulness?
Personal experience? I used to find them quite useful when I was
starting out with Informix.
I guess I'm quite used to the existing statement definitions. It's an
elegant idea, just wondering if it scales sanely. Are the examples of
more complex statements?
Oracle SELECT:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10759/statements_10002.htm
Joe
Yeah, that kinda chaotic. Looks like a sadistic puzzle from the
Krypton Factor. :S
Mind you, that syntax is genuinely complex. It would look chaotic using
the text representation we currently use as well.
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