Re: Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:
> While they're quite attractive, I actually see them being more
> confusing than helpful personally, but I could be wrong.  I reckon
> there might be clearer ways of representing statement options.  The
> real problems with the railroad design come when there are lots of
> references to other diagrams, and you end up with about 10 just for 1
> statement.
>
> Is there a way of testing their usefulness?

Personal experience? I used to find them quite useful when I was
starting out with Informix.

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