Re: Someone has a sense of humour

iparkin_at_iris.bt.co.uk (Ian Parkin) writes:

> Flicking through the Oracle manual for the "Oracle 7 - New Features &
> Options" training course I saw this under the section dealing with exceptions
> on enabling constraints ( p 3-39 ) :-
>
> ALTER TABLE foo
> ENABLE
> CONSTRAINT some_constraint
> EXCEPTIONS INTO exceptions;
>
> Am I the only one to find a <grin> in this ?

I doubt this is deliberate. 'Foo' has been used by programmers and technical writers for so long that it no longer has it's original meaning.

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