On Tuesday 11 December 2007 03:17, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

> Unnamed parameters is easier to write. Thanks to TYPE OF COLUMN, current
> EXECUTE BLOCK syntax may be less tedious, as one doesn't need to know
> columns types to replicate in the parameters type.
>
> And unnamed parameters may also look like named ones, if you put it
> after variable declaration.

In some other cases when named parameters are very useful. Old well known
example. One write SQL request in Delphi:

select :param, p.* from Proc(:param) p

and gets very surprised, why database server does not understand what is a
type of param. Why it understands 'select * from Proc(:param)' but not an
original operator. It takes time for people to understand that actually

select ?, p.* from Proc(?) p

was written, and this 2 '?' are not related from server's POV. And use of
named parameters in DSQL API solves such problems.