es me feel mentally challenged (well... more so than my usually
state :-) ).
Glenn
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say that "The Art of the Meta Object Protocol" is
one of the
best comp sci books in my collection.
Glenn
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Hi Daniel,
Welcome to the Metaobject Protocol, aka the MOP! There is a rich
embedded language for introspecting over and manipulating the cl
Hi Daniel,
Welcome to the Metaobject Protocol, aka the MOP! There is a rich
embedded language for introspecting over and manipulating the class
system in lisp that Elephant uses heavily. You could have a procedure
extract the and caches the essential information from the class slot
defi
I've digested Ian and Leslie's comments on this thread and think we're
all on the same page now. I've been reading different papers and other
OODBMs in trying to propose a querying syntax and am pretty close to
completing this now. However, I have some doubts for which I'll need
someone's h
> My other strong suggestion, besides starting by capturing the major
> use cases, is that we begin by implementing a procedural approach by
> implementing the building blocks for filter, sort, intersect, etc. If
> we take the list of four filtering approaches above, we can start
> writing code t
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Hi Ian,
Thanks for your comments. They do make some points a bit clearer and
bring others to the table. I'd like to see others comment as well
before we continue moving forward.
In summary, I agree to follow your suggestion. However,
Hi Ian,
Thanks for your comments. They do make some points a bit clearer and
bring others to the table. I'd like to see others comment as well
before we continue moving forward.
In summary, I agree to follow your suggestion. However, one thing that
still remains unclear to me is the type
Welcome back Daniel, we all know the work drill!
Here are a few thoughts to throw into the mix...
One advantage of the relational model is that you have implicit data
structures (tables) that can be assembled from existing tables via the
SQL query. This is nice because it means we don't hav
Hello everyone,
I apologize for being disconnected for so long. I had volunteered to
help in the query system and should have done more progress by now.
Unfortunately, the same as some (most or all) of you, putting food on
the table for my family has a higher priority and my current job has
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