[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[David Jones]

On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 1:11:03 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/15/2021 12:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: 
> > On 10/15/21 2:03 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote: 
> >> In Fortran, the implicit typing is only for INTEGER and REAL; it doesn't 
> >> work for other data types. 
> > 
> > Relying on anything IMPLICIT is just bad programming practice. 
> > I thought the languages settled that decades ago.
> I think it was settled like 1970-1995. 
> 
> Since then loosely typed languages and type inference 
> has become widely used. 
> 
> You may not like it, but ... 
> 

SQLite 3.37 will add the STRICT keyword to the CREATE TABLE statement. If present,
it requires that all column definitions include a known data type (INT, REAL, TEXT,
BLOB) and the value must be that type (or NULL if not constrained by NOT NULL).