Re: [Haskelldb-users] uppercase Tablenames

[Anders <ch...@dt...>]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 08:17 +0200, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I tried the tutorial on the haskell wiki [1] and used dbInfoToModuleF=
iles
> > to create the DB Layout. As described I named the Table 'MyTable' but=
 in
> > the created file DBInfo.hs, the table was named 'myTable' (caused by =
a
> > call to 'checkLower' in DBSpecToDBDirect.hs). Obviously this did not =
work
> > with the Table that I created beforehand (with dbSpecToDatabase with =
the
> > original dbInfo as parameter).
> >
> > Is this behaviour on purpose? This would mean one could only use Tabl=
e
> > names that begin with lower case letters.
> >
> > As checkLower is also applied to Field names in DBSpecToDBDirect.hs I
> > assume the same behaviour happens with Fields.
> >
> > [1] http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellDbTutorial
>=20
> Hmm, I can't see any reason why the first letter of the table and field
> names have to be lower case. Of course the Haskell identifiers for the
> tables and fields have to, but not the strings with the actual field
> names.
>=20
> I have removed these calls to checkLower in CVS for now, can anyone she=
d
> any light on why they were there in the first place? Chucky: maybe you
> remember?
>=20
> /Bj=C3=B6rn

Hmm, I am *guessing* I wanted to be consistent, so that the Haskell
identifiers would always have the same name as the actual tables and
fields. OTOH, it might just be a bug. :)

/Chucky