Thread: Kind of Funny

Not thinking, as I often tend to do, I created a table named "order"
and was confused to find the following query does not work:

select * from order;

I recognize that my name selection is questionable, but shouldn't
this still work?

> Not thinking, as I often tend to do, I created a table named "order"
> and was confused to find the following query does not work:
>
> select * from order;
>
> I recognize that my name selection is questionable, but shouldn't
> this still work?

No.  Keywords are not over-loadable, as they are in Pascal, and to do it
is a real pain because the parser can't determine right away what it is.

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