Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

Paul G. Brown wrote:
>
> I think I grok the principles supporting 'abstract' types. I've not
> read the Tarski but in my earnest youth I railed against REF/DEREF for
> all of the 'right reasons' until it was pointed out to me that databases
> routinely store filenames and then reason about the filenames perfectly
> happily thank you very much and filenames are just references so would
> I please just shut up, OK?

Er, well, file names are actually not abstract because they have a concrete representation that you can read.

• Jan Hidders