Re: What databases have taught me

Keith H Duggar wrote:
(snip)
>
> You know, there seems to be lots of jargon criss-cross here.
> For example, since type = class then "adding a new type to
> the class" is a senseless statement.

The word "class" has been somewhat overloaded in OO. OO'ers usually map it 1:1 to the "class" statement/keyword used in most OOPLs, while Dmitry uses it with a more general semantic ('class' as in 'classification').

> And as we can see
> "predicate dispatch" is at least unfamiliar to some

Google is your friend here:
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~todd/research/oopsla04.html

> and
> "pattern matching" can mean /many/ things.

In the context, it seemed clearly related to FP and the ML/Haskell languages - but this of course requires at least some superficial knowledge of one of these languages...

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '_at_'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb_at_xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"