On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Maybe this would be better on cdbi-talk, or perhaps on some abstracted
> database theory mailing list somewhere.
Except that it comes back to bite one in the ass with Maypole because
of the automatic pluralisation which one cannot turn off.
I've never seen a program mess with variable names before.
hips becomes hip
and its not the same thing!
I spend a GREAT deal of time working on the names of things.
To have a program that's supposed to be helping me turn around
and decide for itself that I always mean the singular even if I said
plural is madness!
Maypole does a lot of nice things in theory (mind, I have yet to get the
thing to work) but frankly I'm thinking my first contribution is to rip
out that "feature" or at least make it optional.
This is like the stuff in Class::Accessor that lower-cased everything
SILENTLY (at least you documented the plural->singular change occurring)!
Broke all sorts of stuff mysteriously.
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