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Though probably not the original reason, I would say it's still useful as it brings some kind of distinction between keywords and variables/columns, since SQL consists mostly of words with less pun...
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luser
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2025-04-04T06:08:27Z (7 days ago)
Though probably not the original reason, I would say it's still useful as it brings some kind of distinction between keywords and variables/columns, since SQL consists mostly of words with less punctuation than other programming languages. Consider: ``` SELECT name FROM animal LIMIT 10 ``` which contains only spaces as non-alphanumeric characters. vs ``` animal.filter(limit=10) ``` containing a dot, a pair of parentheses and an equals sign as non alphanumeric characters. Of course, there's syntax highlighting to show the distinction, but I think caps still add something.