go to post Dominic Chui · Apr 7, 2022 Thanks, that makes sense (although it does seem like parts of the documentation are somewhat misleading and could be improved.) As a follow up question, is there an idiomatic way of checking whether a dynamic SQL SELECT query returns any values then?
go to post Dominic Chui · Oct 12, 2021 Considering the complexity of the task of parsing, I'm not sure it makes too much sense to write one from scratch. I was hoping to see if someone else had already done the work or tried it in the past. In terms of is it necessary, not strictly no, but the modern parentheses syntax is much easier to read, maintain and modify.
go to post Dominic Chui · May 4, 2021 While I don't know the specifics in this case, the issue is that unpredictable isn't quite the same as random and being unpredictable is only one desired property for a random function (for starters, you might also want some sort of even distribution over the range). For example, a function that "randomly" returns either 1, 24 or 73 is unpredictable but isn't the same as a function that returns random numbers over the entire range 1-100.
