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At 10:21 AM 9/26/2002 -0400, Mike Champion wrote:
>9/26/2002 10:10:30 AM, Jonathan Robie
><jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com> wrote:
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><just_venting>
>Grrr. For about the 666th time, Jonathan [we've had this argument for years]
>why don't you call it "SELECT" then??? Yes I *know* that the
>acronym would be pronounced "slower" rather than "flower" but is that REALLY
>worth all the confusion that this will cause down the road?
></just_venting>
Because SELECT doesn't do what 'for' does - it is a lot more like 'return'
in a FLWR expression. XQuery's 'for' is a lot more like FROM in SQL.
Jonathan
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