Re: json api WIP patch

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-01T00:26:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 01/31/2013 07:16 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm happy to take opinions about this, and I expected some bikeshedding, but your reaction is contrary to everything others have told me. Mostly they love the operators.
>>
>> I guess that '~>' and '~>>' would work as well as '->' and '->>'.
> Or +> and +>>, since ~ is set very high and small by some fonts (where the fontmakers though of it as a kind of superscript character).
>
> I suppose that := is out of the question?
>


Even if it were I would not on any account use it. As an old Ada 
programmer my mind just revolts at the idea of using this for anything 
but assignment.

cheers

andrew