Thanks, i was the one in the IRC, asking these questions. At least if these change in the future, i will only have to change them in my classes, any more instruction on this i would love to have.
shawn On 7/16/07, Christopher Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To continue this really boring discussion (which originally started on IRC), I have some more points. I think the choice of the name "Chars" was a mistake for the 0.9 release of Storm. I assume the choice of name was based on a context of knowledge of the C "char*" type, or something. There are two big problems with this, though: * The english word "character" doesn't restrict itself to those things defined in ASCII * Databases commonly use "Char" and "Varchar" to refer to *unicode* data, or at least auto-en/decoded data. I realized how confusing this was when I was drafting a table of Storm properties to database-level types. I had to say "For CHAR and VARCHAR types, use Unicode(); for BYTEA and BINARY types, use Chars()". I think "Binary" would probably be a better name for this thing than "Chars", even though "Binary" is a totally meaningless word when it comes to anything other than 0s or 1s, but at least it doesn't have those two major flaws. -- Christopher Armstrong International Man of Twistery http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/ http://twistedmatrix.com/ http://canonical.com/ -- storm mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/storm
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