From: Barry Margolin <bar...@bbnplanet.com>
Subject: Re: Backquote considered bizzare (was Re: loading Emacs-Lisp into CL)
Date: 1999/02/26
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In article <x8lvhgphp3z....@world.std.com>,
Christopher C Stacy  <cst...@world.std.com> wrote:
>The [] delimiters are used in various SQL packages for embedded SQL expressions.
>
>(defun find-drink (&optional (occupation "astronaut"))
>  (sql:select [favorite_drink] :from [people] :where [= [occupation]

But I'm guessing it follows the "grouping" convention I mentioned, e.g.

(sql:select [field1 field2 ...] :from [table1 table2 ...] ...)

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