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Just a question out of curiosity 😄

Why does the Software Factory use both square brackets o] for template parameters and curly braces {} for process variables, instead of standardizing on one type of bracket for both purposes?

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. 

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