2014-11-18 21:27 GMT+01:00 Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net>: > > 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 :-) >
anybody did it, but it doesn't need so it is perfect :) I understand well to Jim' feeling. I am looking to Ada 2005 language ... a design of RAISE WITH shows so RAISE statement is extensible in Ada too. Sure - we can live without it, but I don't think so we do some wrong with introduction RAISE WHEN and I am sure, so a live with this feature can be more fun for someone, who intensive use this pattern. > > cheers > > andrew >