Re: Initial review of xslt with no limits patch

On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:

>> SELECT foo('this' ~> 'that', 1 ~> 4);
>> 
>> Not bad, I think. I kind of like it. It reminds me how much I hate the % hstore construction operator, though (the new name for =>).
> 
> so there is only small step to proposed feature
> 
> SELECT foo(this := 'that', "1" := 4)
> 
> there is only one difference (but you cannot implement it now)
> * notation for key is same like for sql identifier - why: I would to
> clearly identify key and value. When I use a custom operator - like
> you did, it depends on implementation what is key, what is value. When
> you use a SQL identifier's notation for key, you can't to do a error

Sorry, not following you here…

David