Re: ALTER design (Was: Code problems with Perform Thru Exit causes fall through)

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:38:40 -0600, LX-i <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote:

>Now my curiosity is more theoretical.  How does one think to design
>ALTER in a good way?

The "good" way was the way that allowed enough run-time efficiency to
pay for the cost in maintenance programming.

And that trade-off did exist at one time, before CPU time got cheaper
while programming costs and opportunity costs got more dear.

And before optimizing compilers were as good as they are now.