OK, I'm confused. Are you suggesting that "reference generic" should be an alias for "integer" or that it should be smarter and permit UUIDs and other structures? Is this a beginning of a "foreign key" concept for web2py? That might have some pretty extensive usefulness...
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
