As a starter I also fully agree with this suggestion. You could submit it as feature request to the Cassandra JIRA.
2011/12/12 Stephen Pope <[email protected]> > I’d like to second this. I’ve been working with Cassandra for a good > while now, but when I first started little things like this were confusing. > **** > > ** ** > > *From:* Don Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, December 09, 2011 3:41 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Suggestion about syntax of CREATE COLUMN FAMILY**** > > ** ** > > Currently, the syntax for creating column families is like this:**** > > create column family Users > with comparator=UTF8Type > and default_validation_class=UTF8Type > and key_validation_class=UTF8Type;**** > > > It's not clear what "comparator" and "default_validation_class" refer to. > Much clearer would be:**** > > create column family Users > with *column_name_comparator*=UTF8Type > and *column_value_validation_class*=UTF8Type > and key_validation_class=UTF8Type;**** > > > BTW, instead of "column_name_comparator", I'd actually prefer > "column_key_comparator" since it seems more accurate to call column names > "column keys." > > Don**** >
