Dennis Fantoni wrote:

>
> -- cut from mers.interbase.list
>
> A "shoot'n from the belt" idea to see what people think....
>
> Perhaps we could get the parser to recognise these constructs and
> educate the user / developer in the same sort of way that Perl
> does with warnings and errors.

In fact, I was told the other day by a colleague that the SQL standard
_does_ specify a mechanism for "warnings," to report
non-standard-compliant syntax. I'll try to find out more about it.

Bill Karwin