What's the best way for me to start a conversation with the lead developers of DBIC as well as the leads of the various modules that wrap DBIC as a plugin for other frameworks?
I have most of a spec (and a tiny bit of pseudocode) prepared for adding operator overloads to result sets, to make it easier to write & reuse pieces of queries in a style more like Relational Algebra & Tuple-Relational Calculus. For instance, '/' for relational division, '*' for relational product, 'x' for explicit cross join, '|' for inner join, '||' for left outer join, '>' for left antijoin, '+' for union, '&' for intersection, '-' for except, and so on. The path of least resistance seems to be to subclass ResultSet and some other classes. However, if I subclass, then I (or someone) would end up writing Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC::Algebra (or whatever the naming ends up being), and so on for everything else that turns DBIC into a plugin. So. What's the best way to get this conversation rolling? (Cross-posting to Facebook's Perl Mongers group). Thanks, -- P/PW/PWBENNETT Paul W Bennett
