On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Clive Crous <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/4/17 Todd Benson <[email protected]>: > ... >> You can even get really crazy and use continued fractions as part of >> the path method (see Vladim Trapishko's work). Obviously, one has to > ... >> Show me data integrity and good queries and then you have my vote. Oh >> wait, I forget, you have to write a bunch of unit tests first (okay, I >> lost the whole ruby community with that one; my bad) > > Your entire post unfortunately smacks horribly of much theoretical > study and zero practical implementation. I, as one that designs > database structures for a living, even for banking systems would have > to disagree with most of what you said as, theoretical mumbo jumbo and > unusable in real world applications ;) but then -- that is of course > just my opinion. > > Clive
Clive, no bad words. I think we agree to disagree. I take some offense to the "theoretical mumbo jumbo" comment, since I've dealt with ERP systems for several years. In any case, I apologize to the OP for turning this into a side show. The object referencing itself thing may work in some situations. Just know what you are getting yourself into, is all. Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
