Bug #18408 Reserved words are an anachronism
Submitted: 21 Mar 2006 22:59 Modified: 23 Mar 2006 17:04
Reporter: craigb spengler Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.0 OS:Any (Any)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[21 Mar 2006 22:59] craigb spengler 
Description:
I was weaned on FORTRAN -- no such things as "reserved" words! -- I find it strange that nearly forty years later we have to avoid such valuable English terms as "key", "group" or whatever because (I guess) it is too much trouble to parse syntax using contextually-significant algorithms (whine).  Otw, I really love MySQL and think you are doing great work!!

How to repeat:
not applicable

Suggested fix:
not applicable
[23 Mar 2006 17:04] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a feature request. Keywords came from SQL standard... If you want to use them as identifiers, just quote like `KEY`.