On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfonta...@hi-media.com> wrote: > That's why I'm preferring the common-lisp syntax of :param value, or its > variant param: value.
FWIW there is no such common-lisp syntax. Colon is just a regular symbol character and :param is just a regular symbol in common-lisp. There is a convention that functions parse their argument lists looking for such tokens as indicators of what to do with the next argument but it's purely a convention. There's no syntactic significance to the colon. A similar problem arises with using Perl as a precedent. => is just a regular operator in perl which quotes the lhs as a string if it's a simple token and otherwise behaves just like a comma. That would be very different from what we're talking about having it do here. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
