Re: Multi-dimensional arrays and relational db data

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:20:15AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> nice things about PL/SQL), but I would like to note that this statement, 
> while true, is effectively meaningless. Might as well say the same about 
> perl 5 because anyone who wanted to could hack toke.c.
 
OK, I'll put it another way: domain-specific syntax modifications 
are something we want to encourage in all cases, not just in the case
of databases. (There's that generalisation thing again.) On the other
hand, I don't think it's worth getting bogged down in argument at this
stage over how people can apply that concept - specific applications
don't necessarily go in core, they're an external thing; (and certainly
don't help us get the Perl 6 language itself designed) it's just as
useless as discussing not only what modules should be in the Perl 6
equivalent of CPAN but what their interfaces should be.

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