My vote: listen to Dave.  Quick and Dirty usually ends up Slow and Expensive 
and Dirty.

Chuck


On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Steve Peery wrote:

> 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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