Re: variables prefix - ?variable vs. $variable

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:37:37AM -0700, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
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> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
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> > SQL queries can contain ? in other places such as literals.  Presumably use
> > of SQL interface placeholders are determined by some level of parsing, else
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> The issue is that the ? is always handled at the client/language side of
> the *DBC connection. And hence very hard to escape; Using the likes of %,
> !, ~, $ |, ^, & is a lot safer as it is handled on the server side.

I really hope that we don't make core syntax decisions based solely on
this *kind* of consideration. Yes, Java is an important implementation
platform; but this seems an awful reason *by itself* to use something
other than "?" to prefix variables.

Just my 2 cents. I prefer "?x" to any of the alternatives.

Kendall Clark