On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Yarko Tymciurak wrote:
> There is a section in the new book draft which covers Self-Reference
> and Aliases (self-reference notation was added, I believe, after
> the first version went to print).
Yes, I've read it. What I'm saying is that it ought to be extended to
include a two-table cross-reference example.
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Jonathan Lundell
> <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Yarko Tymciurak wrote:
>
> > There are two formats for declaring a reference:
> >
> > ....
> > db.Field('owner', db.other_table) # this must have other_table
> > already defined, or it is a Python error;
> > ...
> > db.Field('owner', 'reference other_table') # this is delayed
> > evaluation, and what you would use to have two tables cross link
> > each other;
> >
>
> This could use a little more detail in the manual, which talks about
> it in terms of self-reference, but doesn't really explain the
> mechanism, or mention the cross-reference usage. IIRC.
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