G'day

Been a firebird user (on and off) for nearly ten years.

Just wondering what is the future of gpre and/or support for embedded
SQL for firebird.

It seems to me to be always lagging behind everything else (it took
years to get COALESCE)

I was ecstatic to see that FB was starting to get some useful functions
in the engine itself, but then saw that good ol' gpre is still not up to
date. :-(

Is blr here to stay? If it is, I might consider spending some time
learning how gpre works (or doesn't work to be more accurate) and
perhaps look at writing a new pre-compiler from scratch that uses lookup
tables or something so that future additions to the language can just be
added. (Could it be that simple?)


Comments?


Cheers