Re: WIP: default values for function parameters

How about IS or INTO?

param_name IS 3
param_name IS 'some string value'

3 INTO param_name
'some string value' INTO param_name

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2008/12/12 David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>:
>> On Dec 12, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> So I think that really this is never going to fly unless it uses a
>>> keyword-looking reserved word. And we're not going to take some short
>>> word that's not reserved now and suddenly make it so. So, despite
>>> Pavel's objection that the AS syntax proposal might be confused with
>>> other uses of AS, I seriously doubt that any proposal is going to get
>>> accepted that doesn't recycle AS or some other existing reserved word.
>
> when I should exactly identify param name, the we should to use any symbols.
>
>>
>> I'm okay with AS if that's the way it has to be, but what about a colon
>> right at the end of the label? A cast is two colons, so no conflict there:
>>
>> SELECT foo(1, name: 'bar', quantity: 10);
>
> it's look well, but I still prefer some combination with =
>
> name: = ''
> name: => '''
> :name = ''
> $name => ..
> $name = ..
>
> Maybe I am too conservative
> Pavel
>
>>
>> No doubt I'm missing something…
>>
>> Best
>>
>> David
>
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