for me no need to have the same syntax and in that regard to be
backwards compatible. However, I do like the functionality offered by
it.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:43 PM, mdipierro<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I do not know. Anyway, that functionality is undocumented because
> experimental and therefore I do not promise it will be backward
> compatible. There will be a way to do it. If people like the current
> syntax we can try preserve it.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Jul 12, 9:19 am, Hans Donner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How will the new DAL replaces the functionality of the current and
>> experimental SQLCustomType?
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:58 PM, mdipierro<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > The new DAL will have a Numeric type. It should be possible to develop
>> > the eStore app independently on this issue (assume double) and then
>> > just change the field type when the new one becomes available.
>>
>> > On Jul 12, 1:26 am, "Francois (Jersey)"
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Back with an old query, in order to deal with an e-store, we would
>> >> need to deal with numeric, as we need to deal with prices which are
>> >> monetary amounts in multiple currencies.
>>
>> >> I can not remember where we are with numeric implementation?
>>
>> >> For example in SQLalchemy, numeric is defined as
>>
>> >> class sqlalchemy.types.Numeric(precision=10, scale=2, asdecimal=True,
>> >> length=None)¶
>> >>     Bases: sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine
>> >>     A type for fixed precision numbers.
>> >>     Typically generates DECIMAL or NUMERIC. Returns decimal.Decimal
>> >> objects by default.
>>
>> >>http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/reference/sqlalchemy/types.html?hig...
> >
>

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