2014-11-18 22:28 GMT+01:00 Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net>: > > On 11/18/2014 04:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > >> >> >> 2014-11-18 21:27 GMT+01:00 Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net <mailto: >> 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. >> >> >> > > (drags out recently purchased copy of Barnes "Ada 2012") > > Ada's > > RAISE exception_name WITH "string"; > > is more or less the equivalent of our > > RAISE level 'format_string'; > > So I don't think there's much analogy there. > > I used it as analogy of immutability of this statement in Ada,
> > I'm not going to die in a ditch over this, but it does seem to me very > largely unnecessary. > > cheers > > andrew > >