Paul,
thanks for the insights.

p> Unifying real functions and selectable procedures in a single model
p> is a non-trivial task: if it were a matter of syntax, it would
p> already have been done.

Of course. What I (and Martijn, probably) meant to say was that the
infrastructure for stored functions is more or less already in-place.
I wasn't suggesting to unify the two execution engines, just to extend
that of the stored procedures which seems the most equipped for the
job.

Ciao
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