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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