Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> writes:
> Actually it always bothered me that we don't have implicit casts from
> integer->boolean. I can't see any ambiguity or unintentional effects
> this would cause problems with. Am I missing something?
Personally, as an old Pascal-lover, I always thought that C's failure
to distinguish between int and boolean was the single biggest design
mistake in the language. I'm very glad that SQL doesn't make that
mistake, and I don't want to go against the standard to introduce it.
regards, tom lane
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