On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:18:18PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > > Nothing's bad about '[]' per se. What's better, but possibly out > > of the reach of our current lexing and parsing system, would be > > things like: > > > > [1::int, 10) > > That's been discussed before. Aside from the parser issues (which > are formidable) it would break brace-matching in most if not all > commonly used editors.
That being the situation, ubiquitous support for the natural syntax looks like it's a decade away, minimum. :( Trying to be cheery, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
