Re: Square Brackets

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:56:29 +0000 (UTC), Erland Sommarskog
<esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maciek Sarnowicz [MSFT] (macies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
Could you share some reasons why the square brackets are not welcome?

They add noise and makes code more difficult to read.

Actually, I think there should be three options:

o Always square brackets.
o Square brackets when needed.
o Never square brackets.

Roy seemed to prefer the latter, to catch badly named objects. But it
might be necessary with this option to make an exception: if you script
a table or an index is included, in most of the name the location is
PRIMARY which in this is context is a an identifier and not a keyword.

I would be VERY happy with "Square brackets when needed." That would
be optimal, even for me! 8-)

And let us not forget the one keyword in square brackets problem that
can not always be avoided: ON [PRIMARY] in a CREATE TABLE script. Of
course Microsoft were the ones that used the keyword in this case.
That would be a clear case where "as needed" is needed.

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT
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