[ZODB-Dev] Re: Ruby/Smalltalk OODB

[Sean Allen]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Benji York wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Gary Poster <gary at zope.com> wrote:
>>
>> What you *can't* do out of the box is ask "hey, what products have an
>> attribute that points to this brand?".  That's a back-reference,  
>> and that
>> needs solutions like the ones to which I was referring.
>
> In other words: if you want an index of references (or any attribute  
> for
> that matter), you have to set it up (just as you would for a RDBMS).

but i could just loop over all the products checking the brand.

and if that statement doesnt set off alarm bells then i feel  
comfortable in my understanding
if not how i managed to

1. misinterpret something and
2. how i managed to write code that actually supported that  
misinterpretation.