Re: Schema/QB: table:field vs. table.field

On man, 2006-02-13 at 20:57 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
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> Hi,
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> - --- On 13.02.06 20:58 (+0200) Henri Bergius wrote:
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> >> in one of the recent lists on this list (I'm too lazy to look up the 
> >> actual mail now) there was some code example about the QB in respect 
> >> with metadata and with joined tables, the synatx there was (if I 
> >> remember right) metadata:fielname vs. tablename.fieldname (or vice 
> >> versa).
> >> 
> >> Why is there a distinction between these two cases in syntax?
> >
> > Because metadata is semantically different that joined tables. Joined 
> > tables are connections between data, but metadata is data about that.
> >
> > Therefore different syntax is justified so people don't think metadata 
> > is just "yet another MgdSchema type".
> 
> I know that metadata isn't "yet another MgdSchema type", but from its 
> semantics I still don't see why somebody should bother about two different 
> syntax variants for the same operation.
> 
> Wether Midgard joins under the hood, or does some other dark magic, isn't 
> important, that is the idea of a Black Box.
> 
> KISS is key here IMHO.
> 
> ... and API consistency (which we don't have very much of it right now).
+1 for dropping a special metatype syntax. 
Tarjei
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> Live long and prosper!
> Torben Nehmer
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