What is a type error?

[Marshall]

Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Marshall schrieb:
> > Chris Smith wrote:
> >> Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
> >> I *think* I understand Marshall here.  When you are saying "assignment",
> >> you mean assignment to values of attributes within tuples of the cell.
> >> When Marshall is saying "assignment", he seems to mean assigning a
> >> completely new *table* value to a relation; i.e., wiping out the entire
> >> contents of the relation and replacing it with a whole new set of
> >> tuples.  Your assignment is indeed less powerful than DML, whereas
> >> Marshall's assignment is more powerful than DML.
> >
> > Exactly.
>
> Ah well. I never meant that kind of assignment.

Sorry for the confusion.


Marshall