On 8/22/07, James Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
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> On 8/22/07, Jatinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Wouldn't It more be more inuitive to say something like
> > :order => { :name => :asc, :created_at => :desc}
>
> Intuitively this is a nice idea, but it will cause problems because
> the order of columns in an ORDER BY clause is significant, and yet
> there's no explicit ordering within a hash.


James is right. Also, conditions can be represented as a bunch of key-value
pairs, but that doesn't fit well for order clauses.

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