Re: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?

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I tend to use A and B. Why use something longer?

As it so happens, i added the following comment to a VIEW just this morning:

-- This causes a problem as ROLLUP adds a record even if it already ex
+ists in the data. For example:
--  WITH A AS (SELECT NULL A FROM Dual), B AS (SELECT A FROM A GROUP B
+Y ROLLUP(A)) SELECT Rownum, A FROM B
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Re^2: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name? by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 02, 2014 at 00:04 UTC
Why use something longer? Because `$a` and `$b` are special Perl globals, and `B` is a core Perl package. toby döt ink	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name? by chacham (Prior) on Oct 02, 2014 at 01:51 UTC
Good point. In that case, i'd probably use my other favorites, moo and cow. :)	[reply]

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