David Cressey wrote:
> Jan Hidders wrote:
>>David Cressey wrote:
>>>Jan Hidders wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think that would be very confusing. First, his table actually has
>>>>ordering, functions don't.
>>>
>>>It's not clear to me that a table has ordering, if I understand you
>>>correctly.
>>
>>Since you did not really define the notion of "table" but distinguished
>>it from relation I made a guess that by table you meant something where
>>the tuples were ordered as in a list. But since it's your term you get
>>to define it, so if you say it is a bag, then it is a bag. Is it?
>
> Actually, I didn't think there would be any discussion of the word "table".
>
> All I mean by "table" is the same thing that the word means in common SQL
> parlance. And that's what I expected everyone to understand that I meant.
> Oh, well.
>
> I'd be very surprised if the cdt glossary has no entry for "table". It
> seems a curious omission.
Which misunderstanding is there about "table"?
Received on Fri Jul 08 2005 - 22:07:54 CDT
