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> What about ?//C//G?. To me as an external user, it says go to C, then go to G (from C). We tend to create mental models of how computers work, and those models are often procedural. For example, my mental model of SELECT * FROM EMP WHERE EMP.SALARY > 10000 is that it scans the EMP table testing each row against the predicate and outputting it if the predicate is true. But the fact that I have this mental model does not make SQL procedural. That's true, incidentally, regardless of whether my mental model bears any resemblance to real implementations (in both these cases, the model is sometimes accurate and sometimes not). Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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