Re: PL/SQL: DEFAULT vs. assignment
From: Ronald Fischer <ronaldf_at_eml.cc>
Date: 2 Jan 2004 01:58:15 -0800
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Date: 2 Jan 2004 01:58:15 -0800
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Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1072795325.31592_at_yasure>...
> Ronald Fischer wrote:
>
> > Is there any semantic difference between initializing a variable with
> > DEFAULT, and doing it with the assignment operator?
> Yes.
And which one?
> How could there be anything but a semantic difference?
It could be a syntactic difference. For example, when you program in C++, you could either use '&&' for the logical AND operator, or the word 'and'. Syntactically, they are different, but from a semantic viewpoint, they are the same.
Ronald Received on Fri Jan 02 2004 - 10:58:15 CET