[Zope3-dev] RelationManager! (was RE: [Zope] Inaugural Zope 3 Mini-Newsletter)

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 01:27, Gary Poster wrote:
> Hi all.  Please annotate in and around
> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/RelationManager
> to see what I've come up with so far and advise on improvements. :-)
> 

Please don't call it RelationManager, 'relation' and a 'relationship'
are two different concepts.

A relational database got it's name for storing 'relations', which is
the weird name mathematicians give for 'tables' (rows and columns and
stuff). A 'relationship', on the other hand, is a link between entities.
That's why Andy calls his pattern 'Relationship Manager'.

The lookalike names, and the fact that we usually talk a lot about
relationships in relational databases usually confuse people.

	Cheers, Leo

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