| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: hstore ==> and deprecate => |
| Date: | 2010-06-09 19:22:22 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTinbOkqO0tZHofFZnxYVI1ApH-fkWXHxpsaX0tSE@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> I actually like :> pretty well. It looks more like =>, and has nice correspondence to := for named function params.
>>
>> Colon was removed from the set of allowed operator-name characters years
>> ago. There are conflicts with various usages (ecpg & psql variables).
>> This is actually a place where the current := behavior could cause some
>> issues, though I'm not aware of any at the moment.
>
> Oh, that's a shame.
>
> In that case, how about:
>
> 'foo' >> 'bar'
+1
merlin
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