You could use ActiveRecord.
Julian.
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On 07/04/2008, at 9:52 AM, Kelly Jones wrote:
Many programming languages (including Perl, Ruby, and PHP) support
hashes:
$color['apple'] = 'red';
$color['ruby'] = 'red';
$type['apple'] = 'fruit';
$type['ruby'] = 'gem';
This quickly lets me find the color or type of a given item.
In this sense, color() and type() are like mathematical functions.
However, I can't easily find all items whose $color is 'red', nor all
items whose $type is 'fruit'. In other words, color() and type()
aren't full mathematical relations.
Of course, I could create the inverse function as I go along:
$inverse_color['red'] = ['apple', 'ruby']; # uglyish, assigning list
to value
and there are many other ways to do this, but they all seem kludgey.
Is there a clean way to add 'relation' support to Perl, Ruby, or PHP?
Is there a language that handles mathematical relations naturally/
natively?
I realize SQL does all this and more, but that seems like overkill for
something this simple?
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