On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Joe Barnhart <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not against sugary goodness in general, but this seems like something > that might be better handled with education rather than overlaying the name > "integer" with "reference genric". (Besides, then what would you do with > people who wanted to use UUIDs for their "reference generics" instead of > integers?) > ... that is my point - why educate on integers, when that's not good education; hide the implementation into a logical abstraction (generic reference term just being borrowed from Matthew's post). Your point about UUIDs sounds more like an agrument _against_ teaching about integers than anything else, to me at least... > I know -- I'll put a page in the web2py wiki about it! ;-P > > -- Joe B. > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]>wrote: > >> yes - my point is this is not obvious, so effecting the same by adding the >> syntax to accomplish the same would be [a] more obvious, and can be talked >> about in the appropriate section of the manual, and [b] make the code more >> readable, e.g.; >> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
