On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 16:32, Curt Sampson wrote: > On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:15, Curt Sampson wrote: > > > On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: > > > > > > > Could you brief me why do they discourage a syntactical frontent to a > > > > feature that is trivially implemented ? > > > > > > What's the point of adding it? It's just one more thing to learn. > > > > You don't have to learn it if you don't want to. But once you do, you > > have a higher level way of expressing a whole class of models. > > Perhaps this is the problem. I disagree that it's a "higher" level.
I don't mean "morally higher" ;) Just more concise and easier to grasp, same as VIEW vs. TABLE + ON xxx DO INSTEAD rules. With INSTEAD rules you can do more than a VIEW does, but when all you want is a VIEW, then it is easier to define a VIEW, thus VIEW is a higher level construct than TABLE + ON xxx DO INSTEAD That is the same way that C is "higher" than ASM and ASM is higher than writing code directly using hex editor. -------------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]