Re: more closed-world chatter

David Cressey wrote:
> If the language includes casting functions, it should be possible to using
> them to join on attributes with different types. Consider Marshall's
> scenario, with the two types, namely int and string. Consider also the
> function str(i) which takes an int as an argument and returns the
> corresponding string.
>
> now we can join on attributes i and s by saying something like
>
> "where a.s = str(b.i)"

That's neither here nor there. I wouldn't say you're joining on i and s anymore. s and str() have the same type.

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Jon