Re: derived class generators and introspection

2006-08-31 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Rather, the proposal is focusing on what users of these data structures would / could see. The idea is that relational structures have the same ease of use and flexability that things like hashes or arrays or sequences or sets do now. They can of course just be stored in RAM like the aforemen

Re: derived class generators and introspection

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Duncan
At 5:31 AM +0100 8/31/06, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Rather, the proposal is focusing on what users of these data structures would / could see. The idea is that relational structures have the same ease of use and flexability that things like hashes or arrays or sequences or sets do now. They can of

Re: derived class generators and introspection

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Duncan
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > HI Darren, > Generally I really like the idea of fixing the relational/OO > mismatch problem by swallowing the relational model whole. :-) > But I wonder if we are ready to say goodbye to the tyranny of disk > seek? How will your proposed s

Re: derived class generators and introspection

2006-08-30 Thread Nigel Hamilton
HI Darren, Generally I really like the idea of fixing the relational/OO mismatch problem by swallowing the relational model whole. :-) But I wonder if we are ready to say goodbye to the tyranny of disk seek? How will your proposed system use the disk? And if it does use the disk what abou

derived class generators and introspection

2006-08-30 Thread Darren Duncan
All, This email is part of a brain dump from my thoughts over the last week while I was away from a computer. If anything doesn't make sense, I will clarify or expand it in the following days. I believe that Perl 6 already has basically all of the necessary parts built-in for implementing a