On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
>> I'd really like to find a better operator name than ==>. But I'm not
>> convinced one exists.
>
> I agree.
+1
No one liked my suggestion of ~> ? Too similar to -> ? Other ideas:
'foo' :> 'bar'
'foo' @> 'bar'
'foo' #> 'bar'
'foo' &> 'bar'
'foo' *> 'bar'
'foo' +> 'bar'
'foo' > 'bar'
'bar' <= 'foo'
I actually like :> pretty well. It looks more like =>, and has nice correspondence to := for named function params.
Hey, why not Unicode?
'bar' ➡ 'foo'
;-)
> Perhaps it would be sane to make hstore_in accept either => or ==>, but
> not change hstore_out (for now)?
+1
David