You are probably right. I too have paid for trying to "make it more efficient" 
many times in my coding career.

Steve

On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:13 PM, David LeBer wrote:

> 
> On 2010-08-12, at 2:05 PM, Steve Peery wrote:
> 
>> I have an EO object that I want to have a to many relationship to a String 
>> object. I could create an EO object to hold the string and do a standard to 
>> many relationship but it seems wasteful. Is there a better way?
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> I will preface this with "I have no idea what your requirements are" but 
> speaking from experience: Anytime I've tried to cheap-out and take the quick 
> and dirty route with my model I've always regretted it. I would just bite the 
> bullet and model the relationship to an eo. I can think of a bunch of 
> downsides of working with a relationship modeled as an array or similar, and 
> not many upsides. And given the tools (EOGeneration, Migrations, etc) it's 
> not really a big deal to do it right.
> 
> ;david
> 
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