Re: [boost] Request for Interest in several Modules

Subject: Re: [boost] Request for Interest in several Modules
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-13 11:43:29

On 01/12/2012 03:34 PM, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> Den 12-01-2012 12:10, Roland Bock skrev:
>
>> You may be very well be right. Currently we generate lots of additional
>> code, to allow for stuff like this:
>>
>> Users users;
>> users.insert(
>>      users.age(42),
>>      users.firstName("Roland"),
>>      users.lastName("Bock"));
>>
>> The insert method knows the required columns (you can specify the
>> non-required columns, too, of course).
>
> So you get a compile error if a column is required, but not specified?
>
> -Thorsten
>
Right. That's the whole idea of what we created: Let the compiler check
as much as possible if our code is correct. This applies to insert
statements, to where expressions, to retrieved values (the compiler
knows which value (name, type) is returned in each column), etc.

Earlier on, I tried to avoid database interaction where possible, but
these days, with the compiler telling me most of the things I could do
wrong, database programming is fun :-)