On 9/27/06, Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm just wondering why its sort_by and not order_by-- is it just a
> perlish/sqlish naming thing?

I tried not to use too many SQLish words in the Manager API because so few
features directly control SQL.  IOW, the vocabulary of the API tries not to
be identical to that of SQL because the functionality of the API is quite
abstracted from the raw SQL.  "sort_by" is also shorter :)

-John



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