Re: Method Names (was: Stolen Ideas)

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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:04:17AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> select * from table where upper(first_name) = ?;
> my $builtin = q[upper(first_name)];
> my @rows = $class->search(\$builtin => "BEATLES");

That's not going to cope very well where you have custom accessor
names...

> my $str = q[sysdate - 15];
> my @rows = $class->search(last_modified_date => \$str);

This has a little more potential.

> Otherwise I think you will be faced with doing something like
> adding a tag to indicate to CDBI not to mess with the value.  Something
> like:
> my @rows = $class->search(last_modified_date => q[<PRESERVE>sysdate - 15];
> Which I personally think sucks.

That's far far too nasty.

Tony