On May 16, 2006, at 20:51, Tom Lane wrote:

Um ... design sanity and consistency, maybe?  Not that I think PL/SQL
is any paragon of those virtues, but surely "we'll invent any feature
we feel like whether it's sane or not" is not a recipe for a
maintainable language.

Yes, sanity is important, I agree.

(No, I'm not particularly in favor of the BY feature mentioned upthread,
either.)

Pity. I thought it was a good idea.

Best,

David

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