that may very well be the case but perhaps there could be an evolution of the language because for newcomers the idea that the from clause is evaluated/executed/defined first is a pain point.
Newbies I help sometimes wonder why things they reference in the SELECT part aren't visible/available in the FROM clause and that's because one is selecting the result of FROM ... JOIN ... WHERE etc anyway
Newbies I help sometimes wonder why things they reference in the SELECT part aren't visible/available in the FROM clause and that's because one is selecting the result of FROM ... JOIN ... WHERE etc anyway