At 11:07 PM 6/10/01 -0500, Me wrote:
> > > [joining 2d arrays]
>
> > I can't envisage this... Perhaps you could reveal an example.
>Seems simple to me. Perhaps you meant the concrete
>method and/or syntax to achieve the join, or to reference
>the two arrays, or to reference the result table. But thinking
>of concrete details like that is way premature.
No it isn't. Your position depends on having a syntax so simple that it is
somehow worth implementing as a native capability instead of the tied
modules others have pointed out. My point is that I don't think there is a
syntax that's simple enough to be worth it.
> > Particularly I can't envisage it for multicolumn
>
>Joining the first and last cols of array 1 with the second
>and last cols of array 2 would pick the first row from both
>arrays.
>
>Again, this seems simple to me.
I understand relational joins. I'm looking for the syntax you propose to
use for expressing them.
>It's cumbersome describing this in english, but I
>would expect it to be really brain dead simple
>intuitive as a computer syntax and semantics.
I still don't think there's anything to be gained here. As far as I can
tell, you're saying, "I want it to be easier to express relational database
operations." Me too. I just don't think they get any easier than they
already are.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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