On mån, 2011-01-31 at 21:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> You would probably have better luck shoehorning in such a feature if the
> syntax looked like this:
>
> (foo).bar(baz)
>
> foo being a value of some type that has methods, and bar being a method
> name.
The SQL standard has the <method invocation> clause that appears to
allow:
...something.column.method(args)
Good luck finding out how to interpret the dots, but it's specified
somewhere.
It'd be kind of nice as a syntax and namespacing alternative, actually,
but figuring out the compatibility problems would be a headache.
> Another possibility is
>
> foo->bar(baz)
This is in the SQL standard under <attribute or method reference>, but
it requires the left side to be of a reference type, which is something
that we don't have.
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