At 10:04 AM 5/5/00 -0400, Ann Harrison wrote:

>
>Let me add my voice to Sean's on this question. Adding the
>top 20 UDF's to the engine as built-in functions will not
>add measurably to the size of the server.
>

In principle, adding UDFs to the base product as they demonstration
their usefulness is a good thing, but with a single level name
space it is problematic as it has the potential to render working
systems inoperatable. A multilevel namespace would take case of
the problem for UDFs, but begs the question of multi-level name
spaces across the board. Added a name space qualifier to UDFs
would require a minor change to a couple of system table and some
fairly locationed code (DML and function tracking). Solving the
general problem is not a minor undertaking.

Jim Starkey