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There is also much less stuff to disambiguate. The only names you ever refer to at the moment are tables. Most databases get by just fine with no namespacing at
by jamii 12y ago
There is also much less stuff to disambiguate. The only names you ever refer to at the moment are tables. Most databases get by just fine with no namespacing at all.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Most databases get by just fine with no namespacing at all. True, but most databases are very limited components of the program(s) that use them, which do use namespacing, not the complete platform for the program.
- jamii 12y agoWe also get to have arbitrary names rather than trying to stuff everything into single word. "People who disagree with me on the internet" is a valid name for an Eve table.
- dragonwriter 12y agoIt's a valid name, albeit on that requires quoting, in pretty much any SQL based database, too. A lot of organizations have coding standards that prohibit names requiring quotes, and/or long names, but most databases support them just fine. That said, I'm quite interested in getting a hold of eve.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoAs Jonathan Edwards says in his subtext work "names are too valuable to waste on talking to compilers." Making naming more of an interface concern rather than a part of the language is a great IDE and can greatly complement the way we use lots of search to write programs anyhow.