Re: Distributed foreign keys (was Re: Category Types)

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message news:bdbqac$1l54$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com...
> My take is that shorthands could be an element of 'meta-programming' -
i.e.
> programs that generate programs, and that a meta-language for relational
> databases would be very nice.
>
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/sheard00accomplishments.html

Thanks for the link. Quite interesting, but will require some time to digest, and it's not obvious off-hand as to where it leads. I hadn't thought of this in any comprehensive way; I guess I was vaguely thinking of something like verbs in FORTH.

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David Best
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