- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:57:27 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Jim Jewett wrote:
>
> The API supports only positional replacements, such as
>
> "select a, b from mytable where c='?' and d>'?'", [4, 5]
>
> Should there be some support for named replacements, like
>
> "select a, b from mytable where c='?val1' and d>'?val2'", {val1: 4,
> val2: 5}
>
> Note that this works more easily if there is some sort of limit on what
> can replace a '?', so that it is possible to take anything next to it
> (until whitespace or punctuation) as a name, rather than a literal.
I think we should probably wait until the next version before extending
this API, but I agree that this would be an interesting direction to go in.
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