Marshall schrieb: > Chris Smith wrote: >> Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I *think* I understand Marshall here. When you are saying "assignment", >> you mean assignment to values of attributes within tuples of the cell. >> When Marshall is saying "assignment", he seems to mean assigning a >> completely new *table* value to a relation; i.e., wiping out the entire >> contents of the relation and replacing it with a whole new set of >> tuples. Your assignment is indeed less powerful than DML, whereas >> Marshall's assignment is more powerful than DML. > > Exactly.
Ah well. I never meant that kind of assignment. Besides, all the aliasing possibilities already happen at the field level, so it never occurred to me that whole-table assignment might enter into the picture. Regards, Jo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list