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On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Paul Bennett <paul.w.benn...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the best way for me to start a conversation with the lead > developers of DBIC as well as the leads of the various modules that wrap > DBIC as a plugin for other frameworks? > > I have most of a spec (and a tiny bit of pseudocode) prepared for adding > operator overloads to result sets, to make it easier to write & reuse > pieces of queries in a style more like Relational Algebra & > Tuple-Relational Calculus. For instance, '/' for relational division, '*' > for relational product, 'x' for explicit cross join, '|' for inner join, > '||' for left outer join, '>' for left antijoin, '+' for union, '&' for > intersection, '-' for except, and so on. > > The path of least resistance seems to be to subclass ResultSet and some > other classes. > > However, if I subclass, then I (or someone) would end up writing > Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC::Algebra (or whatever the naming ends up being), and > so on for everything else that turns DBIC into a plugin. > > So. What's the best way to get this conversation rolling? > > (Cross-posting to Facebook's Perl Mongers group). > > Thanks, > > -- > P/PW/PWBENNETT > Paul W Bennett >
