Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Multi-level name space
Author Jim Starkey
Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com
>>[mailto:Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Jim Starkey
>>
>>Almost nothing changes except the max length of table names and the name
>>matching rules in the BLR and SQL compilers.
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>>It seems too simple. What am I missing?
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>Quoted identifiers.
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>"hungry.wolf" and "hungry"."wolf" will become undistinguishable.
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>Unless you want to forbid some characters even in quoted identifiers.
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Dear Claudio: Why should we care? Is someone we care about likely to
write an application where "hungry.wolf" and "hungry"."wolf" are
expected to be separate distinct tables? And if he gets an error trying
to define the latter, are we to cry crocodile tears?

Claudio, my friend, get a life!