> There's nothing wrong with that. Not unless style counts for something. X is Y looks far too much like X as Y for my taste. I'd rather do a little extra typing to have clear logic than to have clearly unclear code like that. My first thought when I saw this was "doesn't he mean AS?" If I saw something like this in my code I'd expect some major comments to clarify why the code really does mean IS and not AS.
Just my two cents. John -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Darren Duncan Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:08 PM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] Grammar of "X is Y" Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:15:57PM +0000, Tom Sillence scratched on the wall: >> because I really want to write neat queries like: >> >> select col1 is col2 from table > > Are you sure? You just want a result set of true/false values? There's nothing wrong with that. Booleans are values like anything else, and one should be able to store them as field values and return them in rowsets. And very useful in practice, when one considers all the facts one might want to store that are commonly expressed as true/false, such as in a users table column named "may_login" or "is_moderated". -- Darren Duncan _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
