Agreed, BUT it is the Standard. I do not question the concept. Just make certain it is well documented in the "Gray Area" and user configurable. That way old code survives and new code will have the OPTION of not conforming to the Standard.
Even now I am not looking forward to "upgrading" my old stuff from 2.x.x to 3.x.x because of the forward looking 3.x.x "enhancements". Not disparaging the product, just hate paying the price. I still like BCD even if the Marines don't. After all everybody knows they are tough and like eating bugs, producing columns of numbers that don't ad up with the total, and doing other tough things :-) Fred FTB2(SS) long ago > -----Original Message----- > From: Brass Tilde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:44 AM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: Re: [sqlite] Proposed 3.3.0 changes. Was: 5/2==2 > > > > Am I alone in thinking that a division operator that does > > different things depending on the declared datatype of a > > column is an abomination? > > Absolutely not.
