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Postings from June 2001
At 11:07 PM 6/10/01 -0500, Me wrote: > > > [joining 2d arrays] > > > I can't envisage this... Perhaps you could reveal an example. >Seems simple to me. Perhaps you meant the concrete >method and/or syntax to achieve the join, or to reference >the two arrays, or to reference the result table. But thinking >of concrete details like that is way premature. No it isn't. Your position depends on having a syntax so simple that it is somehow worth implementing as a native capability instead of the tied modules others have pointed out. My point is that I don't think there is a syntax that's simple enough to be worth it. > > Particularly I can't envisage it for multicolumn > >Joining the first and last cols of array 1 with the second >and last cols of array 2 would pick the first row from both >arrays. > >Again, this seems simple to me. I understand relational joins. I'm looking for the syntax you propose to use for expressing them. >It's cumbersome describing this in english, but I >would expect it to be really brain dead simple >intuitive as a computer syntax and semantics. I still don't think there's anything to be gained here. As far as I can tell, you're saying, "I want it to be easier to express relational database operations." Me too. I just don't think they get any easier than they already are. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.comThread Previous | Thread Next