On 13/09/09 1:20 PM, Jos Elkink wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the great advice!
>
> I am still a little puzzled, though. If I use modules instead of
> inheritance, how would one code something like "list all items of this
> character"? Would it need to iterate over all types of items? I could
> imagine coding something that tracks all item types and then program a
> fairly short function that iterates over them, but that would lead to a
> very large number of queries (one for each item type) just to get the
> list ...
>
> Am I missing something? :)
No, you're spot on. The question becomes, do you actually need a list of
all the 'items' intermingled together? In many cases I've seen STI, the
answer is no, though that doesn't mean your answer is 'no' :)
Xav
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> Jos
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Xavier Shay <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> On 10/09/09 6:08 PM, Jos Elkink wrote:
> > In terms of practical usage and coding, the inheritance definitely
> > brings substantial benefits.
> I used to use inheritance a lot for code reuse, but now I use modules
> instead and am a happier man because of it.
>
> I try to avoid STI as much as possible.
>
> Xav
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> > Jos
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