On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:15:30PM -0400, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > Btw, I've used these database APIs and know that they all use ':' to > indicate a named bind variable which then maps to a Tcl variable, in > very much the same scheme you've explained above: > > - AOLserver's Oracle and PostgreSQL drivers. (Which is then used and > further extended by the OpenACS db api.) > - nstcl (which wraps Oratcl, Pgtcl, etc.)
Oh, and Oracle's sqlplus interface also uses ':' for bind variables, I forgot to add that one. I've no idea whether the SQL standard says anything about bind variables or not. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/