[Info-vax] Teaching, was: Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 12:47:29 PM UTC+12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
> Experience has shown that escaping parameter values frequently goes 
> wrong.

Your experience? Because you don’t understand what a regular grammar is?

> It can get very messy with Unicode and different character sets 
> in play.

That may be have been true in the days before UTF-8. In this century, that particular problem is finally solved.

> Decent database API's provide support for prepared statement / 
> parameters. 

I don’t see any that deal with LIKE clauses, though, for example. How do you cope with that? Or in your world, do you just run away screaming?