On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:37:55AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why does my TurboGears/SQLObject app need an explicit connection to database
> to
> be exposed?
This is like asking why there are constructors in OO programming. The
answer for both questions is - because you need to initialize the thing.
> Isn't a goal for ORMs to hide all this database connection stuff?
Yes, but remember these things:
1. The Law of Leaky Abstractions - it is very hard to completely hide the
underlying level.
2. There is no way for an ORM to guess where you do want to connect to.
3. What if one would want to connect to two different databases? Should the
ORM to guess both connections? How?!
Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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