On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:45:11PM -0400, Michael Bayer wrote: | no, thats not good enough, the mechanism by which SQLAlchemy | generates the SQL can also be totally separated from the constructs. | the constructs dont know anything about their own compilation. you | might talk about one or two methods at the base of the class | hierarchy that "suggest" the entry points to the included compiler's | interface, but stuff like that is incredibly trivial and is not a | reason to go off and write something totally different.
No where have I suggested that it is just cause to go off and write something totally different. If I thought this, I would not be on this list: I would just do it. | So i am not talking about exposed implementation details... I dont | think theres much of that going on in the public API at all. Correct. It's straight-forward stuff, but, in my estimation, quite a bit of work for someone who is in college. | also, this word "magic" has got to be put to rest what is "magic" ? I consider magic, in this context, to be anything above and beyond what is clearly detailed in the SQL specifications. I do not intend for this to be deragatory. Best, Clark ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sqlalchemy-users mailing list Sqlalchemy-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlalchemy-users