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

[Gary Poster]

ok.

Gary



On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:48, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like
> solitary confinement.
> 
> 
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