On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:36:12AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> I believe the only complete solution is to separate the namespaces.
This is a long term goal of Class::DBI. But it's probably at least 2
years away.
Doing it without breaking backwards compatibility isn't the easiest
thing in the world.
> or all non-column-name methods should have a prefix (e.g.
> cdbi_retrieve).
That's just not going to happen as far as CDBI is concerned.
What Maypole does is up to other people.
> Or just possibly we could agree to the age-old convention that method
> names are verb phrases and column names are noun phrases?
This doesn't really work for methods which return data, rather than
methods which do something.
Tony
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