On 11/18/2014 02:53 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
On 11/18/14, 9:31 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Frankly, I find this whole proposal, and all the suggested
alternatives, somewhat ill-conceived. PLPGSQL is a wordy language. If
you want something more terse, use something else. Adding these sorts
of syntactic sugar warts onto the language doesn't seem like a
terribly good way to proceed.
Such as?
The enormous advantage of plpgsql is how easy it is to run SQL. Every
other PL I've looked at makes that WAY harder. And that's assuming
you're in an environment where you can install another PL.
And honestly, I've never really found plpgsql to be terribly wordy
except in a few cases ("assert" being one of them). My general
experience has been that when I'm doing an IF (other than assert), I'm
doing multiple things in the IF block, so it's really not that big a
deal.
I frequently write one-statement bodies of IF statements. To me that's
not a big deal either :-)
cheers
andrew
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