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A comment on The Advantages of Flexible Typing.

Re:The Advantages of Flexible Typing by no-s on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:54PM (#28420796)
this is one of those beautiful yet terrifying aspects of SQLite. After all, you could stick another whole SQLite database into an attribute. Purposefully or by accident.
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Re:The Advantages of Flexible Typing by smitty1e on Sunday September 05, 2021 @07:04AM (#28423297)
This true observation gets at a variation on the point of The Famous Article (TFA): yes, but what reasonable level of effort shall be applied toward hypothetical 'problems'?

As you note, sticking a whole database into an attribute could be a design element for an application.

I'd always thought that stronger type systems had to do with performance and storage optimization, but TFA didn't delve into that.

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