Re: [HACKERS] symbol ':'

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Thomas G. Lockhart writes:
> It's an allowed operator symbol assigned to a little-used math
> operation. You can disallow it for embedded sql if you need to. Another

Yes, I have to.

> possibility though is to disallow it as an operator _unless_ it is
> inside parentheses. I did a similar thing in gram.y in the BETWEEN/AND
> parsing to allow the boolean "AND" operator to be used on the right side
> of BETWEEN/AND. But maybe indicator variables are allowed to show up
> inside expressions too, so this wouldn't work...

They are. And it's not only indicators. The variables begin with ':', too.

> btw, I've been thinking about changing another operator symbol, ";",
> because of the obvious parsing ambiguities with the SQL end of statement
> symbol. We could change both ":" and ";" operators for v6.4??

Good idea.

Michael

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