Re: setting up relationships

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Yuval--

I've studied your email several times now and messed around with my 
code to try out my understanding.  i finally get what this moniker 
business is all about.  note to documentation writers: it is implied 
(if i am finally actually getting a clue here) that you have named 
columns in your database according to this rubric.  or rather, the wise 
man will name his columns according to this rubric.  the foolish man 
will insist on confusion by using whatever naming convention his old 
russian app developer taught him as a young man.

to me, it is rather profound that there is some english language 
interpolation going on based on how you name things.  call me slow but 
this is in no way obvious from the documentation and ends up being 
really confusing to those of us who insist on doing everything the hard 
way (i.e. their own way).  i couldn't see the logic behind the naming 
conventions that were being used. but i could tell i was missing 
something interesting that was going on.

anyway i am now going to make a new schema and rename everything in 
this manner and see what i come up with.  one day i hope to actually 
use all of this for maypole...

in the meantime i will work on documenting a step-by-step recipe for 
newbies trying to learn this world of Class::DBI.

thanks
steve

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