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OR-SML: A Functional Database Programming Language for Disjunctive Information and Its Applications Export

edited by: D. Karagiannis

In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'94), Vol. 856 (1994), pp. 641-650.

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. We describe a functional database language OR-SML for handling disjunctive information in database queries, and its implementation on top of Standard ML [20]. The core language has the power of the nested relational algebra, and it is augmented with or-sets which are used to deal with disjunctive information. Sets, or-sets and tuples can be freely combined to create objects, which gives the language a greater flexibility. We give examples of queries which require disjunctive information...


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