Am 10. April 2012 10:40 schrieb Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com>: > Hello Jeff. > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 06:43:13AM -0700, Jeff Anderson wrote: >> Like i said, i was mostly curious of the mindset behind this code that go >> through the hard work of parsing a SQL statement but not providing the >> ability to alter and reuse that statement. > > My answer, for your curiosity, is that no one has needed it enough to put > in the work required to implement it. It's as simple as that.
Or - what I like to mention - there's missing a European equivalent for crowd funding. I always wanted to rewrite SQL::Statement reusing ribasushi's great SQL::Translator (allows to parse different SQL dialects - and have only one SQL parser on CPAN to maintain) and simplifying the sql processing engine using OO techniques, but it took nearly three man months to update DBD::File and related - it would take much more time to rework SQL::Statement. This is no quick goal, no low hangin fruit - so I expect no one will "need it enough". Technicians usually don't manage so much money, managers don't understand the benefit. I expect, more parts of Perl and/or DBI have similar funding problems. Best regards, Jens PS: I deleted Jeff from receiver list because I don't want to repeat useless discussion.
