Re: [Poop-group] Changes to hasa()

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 10:17, Tony Bowden wrote:
> I had an interesting realization about hasa() yesterday ... it's really
> just a special case of the 'associate this column to this class'
> function that we currently have as associated_class().
> 
> So, I'd like to bring the two together. But there are several issues:
> 
> 1) They take their arguments in opposite directions!
> 
>     Foo->hasa(Class => column);
>     Foo->associated_class(column => Class);
> ...
> To make all of this simpler, I may just deprecate hasa() and
> associated_class() and replace both with a unified has_a() which 
> looks something like this:
> 
>   CD->has_a(artist => 'CD::Artist');
>   CD->has_a(release_date => 'Date::Simple');
> 
>   CD->has_a(last_update => 'Time::Piece::MySQL', 
>     in  => 'from_mysql_datetime',
>     out => 'mysql_datetime',
>   );
> 
>   CD->has_a(last_changed => 'Time::Piece',
>     in  => sub { Time::Piece->strptime(shift => "%d.%m.%Y") },
>     out => sub { shift->dmy('.') },
>   }

Ooo, great idea. This may be a nice area of convergence for SPOPS...

Chris

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