On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:37:23PM +0100, Kees Nuyt scratched on the wall: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:38:49 -0500, P Kishor > <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I must be in an alternate universe. So, I have turned off images in my > >browser and I am looking at http://www.sqlite.org/lang_delete.html > > You are trying to find a formal syntax description in text. > It's not there,
I want to remind everyone that even the "railroad diagrams" are not a formal syntax specifier. They're designed to be easy-to-understand documentation, and are not definitive. They are not a specification. They are built and maintained apart from the formal grammar, and there are numerous differences. Speaking of which, the formal grammar can easily be found in a full source distribution. It is far from an ideal place to try to learn SQL, but it is there. I think it may be more helpful to have some type of text-based representation, even if it is just an "ASCII art" version of the current diagrams. I dislike the fact you can't keyword search across a page of graphic diagrams. I'd also point out that not all that long ago the docs were in pseudo BNF, and people went crazy when the diagrams showed up. I appreciate the fact that the graphical representations have their limits, but overall I think they do a much better job at expressing the general syntax to a much larger audience. Depending on the limitations of the OP's vision, it is also trivial to modify the syntax of the diagram script so that it generates HUGE diagrams. I realize that may still not help, but it may be an option for others. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor." "I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string." --from Anathem by Neal Stephenson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
