> What does this have to do with databases and declarative view objects? Well, you can think of a cursor as a query into the state, with support for dependency

> What does this have to do with databases and declarative view objects? Well, you can think of a cursor as a query into the state, with support for dependency tracking. I think your confusion is that you're asking "How is what you're describing like a cursor?" when I'm saying "Om Next is going to replace cursors with something very different." ...so you're right, it isn't the same as a cursor anymore, because swannodette is moving away from the cursor paradigm into more of a "querying" approach.