Re: Schema/QB: table:field vs. table.field

On Feb 13, 2006, at 19:37, Torben Nehmer wrote:
> in one of the recent lists on this list (I'm too lazy to look up  
> the actual mail
> now) there was some code example about the QB in respect with  
> metadata and with
> joined tables, the synatx there was (if I remember right)  
> metadata:fielname vs.
> tablename.fieldname (or vice versa).
>
> Why is there a distinction between these two cases in syntax?

Because metadata is semantically different that joined tables. Joined  
tables are connections between data, but metadata is data about that.

Therefore different syntax is justified so people don't think  
metadata is just "yet another MgdSchema type".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata

> Torben Nehmer

/Bergie

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