On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:59 -0600, Norman Harman wrote:
> SmileyChris wrote:
> > Collin has put a lot of effort in to this ticket [1] which is still
> > waiting as a design decision. The latest patch is (apart from lack of
> > docs) ready for check-in in my opinion. Could we have a decision on
> > whether this is worthy?
> 
> Nobody knows me, so my opinion isn't worth much.  But, this would be good.  
> Better would 
> be if it were transparent(properties or some other mechanism to notice when 
> fields are set 
> and therefore dirty/need updating).  I'm fairly surprised something like this 
> isn't 
> already the default behavior.

See earlier threads for why transparent behaviour is not a very safe
idea. If you override save(), for example, it's going to be very easy to
end up with things not being saved. This is not common behaviour, so
asking somebody to at least pass in an extra param or two isn't going to
kill them.

Regards,
Malcolm

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