Reserved words - Enhancement request
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 28445
interpreted = N
texte = At 6:20 PM -1000 2000/03/02, Kenneth Grome wrote:> >I definitely agree, it doesn't seem right but that's just the way it >is. Maybe SM will consider this situation as a genuinedrawback now >that someone new has mentioned it once again. > >It seems like this issues relates directly to the fact that >webcatalog uses common names for the fields in the shopping cart as >well as the exact same names in the catalog.db -- thus causing >conflicts inside orderfile contexts which appear inside founditems >contexts or vice versa ...I totally agree, but I think that it is too late now. There is a lot of code that would break if they renamed the tags.There IS something we can do now AND something that SM could do to ease the pain.We as users should start coding all db field names with a 2 character prefix. dbPrice or myPrice would solve the problem. The database generator and examples could be changed to promote this standard.Even better, SM could do a lookup on a 'reserved word database' when they open user databases for each field in the header. If a db field has the same name as a reserved word, kick out an error message. Make this an option and default it to ON for development, then the savvy could turn it off for production databases for less overhead. Do the same for the [text] tag and the [math] tag and you have solved the problem. This would save a lot of newbies a lot of debugging time (it would have helped me a lot! I have been caught several times now).SM, please consider this an enhancement request! :) -Chuck-__________________________________________________________________________ Chuck Rice
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At 6:20 PM -1000 2000/03/02, Kenneth Grome wrote:> >I definitely agree, it doesn't seem right but that's just the way it >is. Maybe SM will consider this situation as a genuinedrawback now >that someone new has mentioned it once again. > >It seems like this issues relates directly to the fact that >webcatalog uses common names for the fields in the shopping cart as >well as the exact same names in the catalog.db -- thus causing >conflicts inside orderfile contexts which appear inside founditems >contexts or vice versa ...I totally agree, but I think that it is too late now. There is a lot of code that would break if they renamed the tags.There IS something we can do now AND something that SM could do to ease the pain.We as users should start coding all db field names with a 2 character prefix. dbPrice or myPrice would solve the problem. The database generator and examples could be changed to promote this standard.Even better, SM could do a lookup on a 'reserved word database' when they open user databases for each field in the header. If a db field has the same name as a reserved word, kick out an error message. Make this an option and default it to ON for development, then the savvy could turn it off for production databases for less overhead. Do the same for the [text] tag and the [math] tag and you have solved the problem. This would save a lot of newbies a lot of debugging time (it would have helped me a lot! I have been caught several times now).SM, please consider this an enhancement request! :) -Chuck-__________________________________________________________________________ Chuck Rice ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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