On 19/09/2012 04:57, Chris Travers wrote:
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> Natural language semantics will get you into trouble though. After all,
> I think Lisp follows natural language semantics remarkably closely if
> your natural language is Irish Gaelic
Really? I haven't used Irish seriously since I left school - m
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Eden Cardim wrote:
> > "Craig" == Craig Ringer writes:
>
> Craig> I just wish they hadn't written it backwards!
>
> Craig> It'd be much less confusing were it formulated as something
> Craig> like:
>
> Craig> SELECT FROM thetable WHERE first_l
> "Mike" == Mike Christensen writes:
Mike> No, I meant editors that auto-complete SQL statements for
Mike> you as you're typing them. Like Intellisense in Visual
Mike> Studio.
Mike> Obviously you wouldn't want to type "select " and then see a
Mike> list of every column in
> "Mike" == Mike Christensen writes:
Mike> I can also say if the table came before the columns, we'd
Mike> probably have a lot more SQL editors with auto-complete that
Mike> worked :)
There's nothing stopping an editor from making you type the table
first though, it's easier to i
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Eden Cardim wrote:
>> "Mike" == Mike Christensen writes:
>
> Mike> I can also say if the table came before the columns, we'd
> Mike> probably have a lot more SQL editors with auto-complete that
> Mike> worked :)
>
> There's nothing stopping an edi
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Eden Cardim wrote:
>> "Craig" == Craig Ringer writes:
>
> Craig> I just wish they hadn't written it backwards!
>
> Craig> It'd be much less confusing were it formulated as something
> Craig> like:
>
> Craig> SELECT FROM thetable WHERE first_let
