From: "Kerry Scott" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <0dfhht44o0un1gea4ri1bglifq6i59dbb0@4ax.com> Subject: Re: The case preference of writing SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*PLUS comands/scripts Lines: 36 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:16:39 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.108.248.51 X-Trace: nntp0.chicago.il.ameritech.net 991872732 64.108.248.51 (Wed, 06 Jun 2001 19:12:12 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 19:12:12 CDT Organization: Ameritech.Net www.ameritech.net Complaints: abuse@ameritech.net What part of the English language is this: *definite* ? I don't recall that punctuation. wrote in message news:thstlh72cnsn00@corp.supernews.com... > Spencer wrote: > > > ex1. looks valid, and is proper. > > ex2. looks valid, but is NOT proper. > > (i'm prepared to be toasted for that answer...) > > i apologize now for the length of this post, but i believe this is a > > topic worthy of discussion. thanks for asking Dino. others are > > welcomed to add their thoughts... > > in looking at the two examples, it appears that oracle will interpret > > these both the same way, there will be no difference (? someone > > correct me if i'm wrong about this) in the compiled function. > > (the source text that is stored will be different, of course) > > [snip] > > Your argument would carry more weight if you bothered to follow your own > advice! The English language has a *definite* definition of what is > proper -- that the personal pronoun "I" and the first word of every > sentence be capitalized -- but you don't bother to follow it. If you > can't be bothered to follow proper formatting in your own writing, why > should anyone take advice from you about the "proper" format of other > languages? > > Mark >