Re: A Question about (CONSTRUCT in I4GL and ISQL) Perform

Posted in 2004

Andrew Hamm — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:13:01 +1000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Jonathan Leffler wrote: >> >> Is there any chance to acually get this put into 4GL itself? > > Not much, but I'll lob it to the team. > > I suspect you'd do better talking to the Aubit4GL people, or possibly > 4J's or Querix. yeah - 4JS might be interested. Then again, I've written a fair few parsers of little ugly syntax, and I know how easy it would be to detect and strip a leading ! or ^ (which is my cow-orkers preferred symbol, so I defer) and then slip the keyword "NOT" into the proper place. > The one I'd really like is to enter: > > A*|BCD*|?[A-Z][a-z]-* You've thought about this before .... All those ideas sound nice for sure, but become progressively harder to implement. I'm just asking for a modest change :-) Still, if I actually start coding, I'll see what I can achieve with your ideas.