Re: trouble with stringify

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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>But I've never seen any admonition not to stringify a column of your
>primary key.  Is this also broken for the same reasons?  If so, can
>the docs be fixed?  If not, can the code be fixed?

This is one of the things that will theoretically be fixed by the
legendary code that will store values as objects. The objects will know
their 'database' value, their 'inflated' value etc simultaneously,
rather than only being able to be one of these, and thus will magically
work everywhere.

Of course this code still doesn't actually exist, or at least not in any
way that can actually be used, but that's the plan.

Tony