Re: Array iterators

Sounds great to me. Mostly why I made the remark that I wasn't happy
with the solution due to using type unknown.

any and _any it is.
--
Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Bazin" <nbazin(at)ingenico(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Rod Taylor" <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>; "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hackers List" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Array iterators

> Just a small remark, type name "any" would be more meaningfull than
> "unknown". Also it's widely used (CORBA for example) and may enter
in the
> STL someday.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> To: "Rod Taylor" <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>
> Cc: "Hackers List" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Array iterators

> > I believe that the best ultimate resolution of these problems will
> > involve creating a spectrum of "pseudo-types" with different,
sharply
> > defined meanings. Breaking up "opaque/type 0" is going to cause a
> > lot of backward-compatibility pain, so I have not been in a big
hurry
> > to do it --- but let's get it right the first time when dealing
with
> > shades of "unknown".