"David Fetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I mean by "kinda" is that it's a standard way of handling > parameters in Oracle and in DBI.
That's a good reason *not* to use them for other purposes. Users trying to create procedures through DBI or other interfaces like it will run into problems when the driver misinterprets the parameters. > I think it would be a very bad idea > to require that people use the function name in parameters, I think were talking about only allowing it to disambiguate if the name is shadowed by a variable in an inner scope. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
