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SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL (research.google)

submitted 3 weeks ago by LPThinker@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Really intriguing article about a SQL syntax extension that has apparently already been trialed at Google.

As someone who works with SQL for hours every week, this makes me hopeful for potential improvements, although the likelihood of any changes to SQL arriving in my sector before I retire seems slim.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

It's used that way in Elixir. I don't find it a problem.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's unnecessary, though - the keywords alone are sufficient. I dislike "clutter" syntax.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Possibly unpopular opinion: more languages should embrace unicode symbols in their syntax with multi-character ascii equivalents like Raku did. I set my vim config to automatically replace the ascii version with unicode. It wasn't hard, it makes the code a little more compact, and with good character choices, it stands out in an understandable way.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

This should be done with font ligatures, not replacing character combinations with other characters that can't be typed normally

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