On 19 Jan 2018, at 1:48pm, R Smith <ryansmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018/01/19 3:36 PM, Simon Slavin wrote: > >> I hope one day to see SQLite4, in which everything done to avoid breaking >> backward compatibility is abandoned. > > That's an impossibility. > > If you mean that SQLite4 itself will not have to honour backwards > compatibility to SQLite3, then yes - but if you intended that SQLite4 itself > will have a mechanism by which it will not fall prey to the perils of > maintaining backwards compatibility to its own generation, then no, that is > impossible. It too will have the same struggle.
Oh no, I get that. SQLite4 will start its own legacy of foibles. But it would be nice to get rid of the "" quoted variable names, the NULL keys, and a few other things. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
