Re: Is relational theory irrelevant?

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message <news:bpdpuh$1v88$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com>...

> Sniped in and bold added:
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> your *client program* opens the *cursor* and *iterates*

Fine, then define sendmail() to take one or more relations as arguments and let /it/ do any iterating:

sendmail(select address from harvestedlist, "MAKE MONEY FAST!!!")

I suppose that if we can only push iteration down deep enough, it goes away entirely?

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