Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fail to see an example that would support such a claim. > > On the other hand, UPDATE can assign any value to any field of any > record, so it's doing exactly what an assignment does. INSERT/DELETE can > create resp. destroy records, which is what new and delete operators > would do. > > I must really be missing the point.
I *think* I understand Marshall here. When you are saying "assignment", you mean assignment to values of attributes within tuples of the cell. When Marshall is saying "assignment", he seems to mean assigning a completely new *table* value to a relation; i.e., wiping out the entire contents of the relation and replacing it with a whole new set of tuples. Your assignment is indeed less powerful than DML, whereas Marshall's assignment is more powerful than DML. -- Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer MindIQ Corporation -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
