Re: Yet another relational programming language

On Sep 10, 3:53 pm, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
> Vadim Tropashko wrote:
> >http://vadimtropashko.wordpress.com/relational-programming-with-qbql/
>
> Vadim, just curious about a perhaps not very common case:
>
> supposing attributes c and s are constrained to the values {1,2} and
> these predicates:
>
> "c is a customer":
> C
> c
> 1
>   and
> "s is a supplier"
> S
> s
> 2
>
> In an unconstrained version of D&D algebra,
>
> "c is a custome OR s is a supplier":
> C <OR> S:
> c s
> 1 1
> 1 2
> 2 2
> In rellattice I presume the result of C v S would be something like
> "table_dee", is that right?

Yes.
----QBQL input:
C = [c] 1;
S = [s] 2;
C v S;
----QBQL output:
CvS=R01;

> If so, can one use negation in rellatice to get the same result or is
> there another way?

Yes to both. The '+' operation is exactly the same as D&D <OR>. Here are some identities it enjoys:

x + y = (x' ^ y')'.
x + y = (x ^ (y v R11)) v (y ^ (x v R11)). x ^ (y + z) = (x ^ y) + (x ^ z). Received on Fri Sep 11 2009 - 01:30:43 CEST