Just a question out of curiosity 😄
Why does the Software Factory use both square brackets [] for template parameters and curly braces {} for process variables, instead of standardizing on one type of bracket for both purposes?
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Why does the Software Factory use a mix of brackets [] and braces {}?
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Best answer by Mark Jongeling
Hi Marius,
Fair question, it looks to be that it was decided way back in the day. A theory could be that anything the GUI supplies or reads is captured in {parameter} whilst the SQL-code parameter definition was deliberately separated from it to prevent issues. Waaaaaaaay back in the day the GUI itself was the one generating the logic so perhaps that was something.
I think nowadays it wouldn’t be any problem if the parameter definition for SQL-code also be {parameter}. Just converting all the existing brackets to curly ones is a bit of a challenge as brackets are also used in other contexts such as Array pointers and Alias naming.
+23Hi Marius,
Fair question, it looks to be that it was decided way back in the day. A theory could be that anything the GUI supplies or reads is captured in {parameter} whilst the SQL-code parameter definition was deliberately separated from it to prevent issues. Waaaaaaaay back in the day the GUI itself was the one generating the logic so perhaps that was something.
I think nowadays it wouldn’t be any problem if the parameter definition for SQL-code also be {parameter}. Just converting all the existing brackets to curly ones is a bit of a challenge as brackets are also used in other contexts such as Array pointers and Alias naming.
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