Tom Lane írta: > 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.
On the other hand, the first two programming languages I have learnt was Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC and Z80 assembly, I welcomed C being so near to assembly... :-) > I'm very glad that SQL doesn't make that > mistake, and I don't want to go against the standard to introduce it. > In that we agree. SQL is not C. Best regards, Zoltán Böszörményi -- Bible has answers for everything. Proof: "But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." (Matthew 5:37) - basics of digital technology. "May your kingdom come" - superficial description of plate tectonics ---------------------------------- Zoltán Böszörményi Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH http://www.postgresql.at/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
