If the singular is The syntax of the command is.... The command has two syntaxes The command has two syntacies (like incidies)
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Scott Webster Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Colin Wetherbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> My goal was as a > >> time/work saving measure (from the administration perspective) to > >> allow 'children' elements to have blank entries where the values > >> would get inherited down from parents. > > >That makes sense. I haven't delved into the object-relational > >properties of databases, but I wonder if that kind of inheritance is > >easier to achieve than it seems? > > >If the object-relational thing works out, you may not have to worry > >about recursion. I'd suggest investigating that route. > > >If all else fails and you still want to keep these operations inside the > >database, stored procedures are great for that sort of thing. > > Yeah, I actually considered the possibility of creating an accompanying > object model in something like perl or the like. perl has a nice capability > of 'packing' it's variables, objects are just instances of 'blessed' > subroutines and subroutines are stored in hashes. So technically you could > pack and store the object instance itself although that would still require a > little finess and some recursive lookups at runtime to get the inheritance to > work right. But once stored in memory, the parents' info would be availble > (but that sorta tosses out the need for a DB other than to initialize the > program memory.) > > > >As for the plural of "syntax", I don't think there is one, but it's > >likely possible to pluralize etymologically ancestral versions of it. :) > > > > Yeah that became quite a joke as I was leaving the office yesterday. I did > a quick lookup after writing the email and couldn't find a plural for syntax. > I first looked at dictionaries - even foreign ones. I looked through more > than a dozen total. I then turned to google in general. Then it hit me that > figuring out what the plural of syntax is, is another form of syntax! So I > was asking everyone the proper syntax for pluralizing syntax! I received a > plethora of responses (there's another interesting one - what's the singular > or plethora? plethorum?) from syntax (self-plural), syntaxes, synti ... one > person even thought I said 'sin tax' and hid their pack of cigarettes. > > SW > > SW > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > -- Matthew O. Persico
