Database interface design - was how to build up the library.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/07/11 15:00, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/7/11 12:02 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
>>> Did you see http://pszturmaj.github.com/ddb/db.html ? It maps tuples,
>>> structs and arrays in similar manner.
>>
>> I did. Looks good. Why do you need DBRow? You could simply use
>> Variant[], the given struct, or Tuple directly.
>
> Sure, that's a good idea. I used DBRow because I wanted generic
> set/setNull for any of its base types, but it could be done with
> function templates anyway...
>
> The only thing that makes DBRow useful is opIndex access to Variant[]
> fields, like row["field"].

Oh that makes sense, thanks.

Andrei