I am in agreement with Antony Blakey's statements below. I was preparing such a statement when I read the post. I have worked with multiple software packages (as, certainly, most of you have) which have a form of "debug=true" and the accompanying *documentation* counseling against using it except for testing/debugging.
There are modules in Erlang which have exported funs with documentation "for debug only". _temp_view is descriptive, documentation can inform proper useage. As mentioned in my previous post, I prefer keeping _temp_view ~Michael On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:01:28PM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote: > How about relying on documentation? > > This view may be slow (or not, for a small db). I might use it for > testing or ad-hoc maintenance. Who knows? The one thing you can say for > certain is that it is temporary, unlike every other view. That is the > defining characteristic of this facility, and hence _temp_view is the > appropriate name. > > On 05/01/2009, at 9:03 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >> How about _test_view? Kinda gets the point across that it's for >> testing. > > Antony Blakey > ------------- > CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd > Ph: 0438 840 787 > > All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing. > > -- Michael McDaniel Portland, Oregon, USA http://trip.autosys.us http://autosys.us
