Re: MV Keys
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2 Mar 2006 21:43:40 -0800
Message-ID: <1141364620.294386.209310_at_z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
> I'm catching up, but I don't think this is what Codd meant by the
> phrase "repeating group." We used to use "repeating group" to refer to
> data defined with an OCCURS clause in COBOL, for example.
Date: 2 Mar 2006 21:43:40 -0800
Message-ID: <1141364620.294386.209310_at_z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
dawn wrote:
>
> I'm catching up, but I don't think this is what Codd meant by the
> phrase "repeating group." We used to use "repeating group" to refer to
> data defined with an OCCURS clause in COBOL, for example.
Since I'm a languages geek, I can maybe understand what you mean if you use terminology based on such languages as C, C++, Java, Fortran, Ratfor, SML, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, Eiffel, Erlang, Icon, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, C#, BASIC, Clean, Nice, Scala, Sawzall, Javascript, Mercury, Sather, Oz, OOK*, Turing machines, or the lambda calculus.
COBOL, not so much.
What, may I ask, is an OCCURS clause?
Marshall
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