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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:58:24 +0100
From: Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
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Rob, could you post this to the ZING list for me, please?
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> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:33:01 +0200
> From: Adam Dickmeiss <[log in to unmask]>
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> This is what I suggest instead:
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> cql-query::= cql-query boolean search-clause | search-clause
> boolean ::= "and"|"or"|"not"|prox
> search-clause::= "(" cql-query ")" | [index relation] term
Righty! _Now_ I feel all warm and melty :-)
Jon Bentley once observed that the highest praise he had ever heard of
a programer was "He adds functionality by removing code". That's what
Adam's done here, and I hereby nominate him for the DCC (Distinguished
Coding Cross).
"Simplicity, Clarity, Generality"
-- the three Magic Words on the cover of
_The Practice of Programming_, Kerninghan & Pike.
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)_v__/\ "[Ken] Bates resembles nothing so much as Michael Winner
without a restaurant column" -- Will Buckley, _Guardian_,
19th November 2000
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