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Karsten Farell wrote:
> Steve M wrote:
> > never written a compiler, eh?
> >
> > "Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> > news:7clrpuk1bbevtf9cn52gjbdfsn7dmvm1ta_at_4ax.com...
> >
> >>On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:24:07 -0700, "Steve M"
> >><steve.mcdaniels_at_vuinteractive.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>shouldn't a trigger like this cause an error?
> >>
> >>Why would it? It's doing nothing, isn't it?
> >
>
> Conceptually, it's not much different than writing code 'stubs' in many
> other programming languages. I should be able to write stubs for called
> functions that do nothing ... to test out the functionality of my
> calling program. Then later on, I flesh out the stubs. If compilers did
> not allow stubs, then writing windows programs with all their event
> stubs for mouse callisthentics (did I spell that right?) would be
> torture. And I'd be forced to flesh out all my java classes before I
> could call them.
>
> Well, it turns out, I can write code stubs in PL/SQL as well.
Not to mention if you took this capability out ... it would make some debugging tasks an absolutel nightmare.
Daniel Morgan Received on Mon Oct 07 2002 - 18:02:41 CDT