On Nov 24, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Alek Paunov <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW, I see the term "deterministic" in the SQL99 BNFs: > … > but different in PostgreSQL ("immutable", "stable", etc):
There is value in compatibility, but those adjectives are awful. In computer science we have referential transparency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency_(computer_science) and pure functions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function e _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
