> MT> Disagree - a FUNCTION allows usage without SELECT etc and can be
> MT> very much more "clean" in this regard.
>
> that's exactly what I meant for "syntactic sugar": the ability to use
> a better, cleaner syntax to do a task that's already possible through an
> alternate, worse syntax. So we don't disagree after all. :-)

:-)

Anyway, I think the inline select is more of a "hack" ... Functions
would be better.

Ah well - 2.0 is on it's way... (ahum *g*)

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With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird & MS SQL Server.
Upscene Productions
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