[DB-SIG] paramstyles, again (and now voting)
Carsten Haese
carsten at uniqsys.com
Thu Jun 21 02:35:41 CEST 2007
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:59 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > How about making both qmark and named the minimum required
> > parameter styles ?!
> >
>
> Forget minimum.
> Make qmark and named requried.
> Make paramstyle something that is set/passed in as part of the init, and is
> ReadOnly after that. It should default to the same thing in all implementations.
>
> I think we can make it super simple, and it will be way better than the current
> implementation.
>
> For backwards compatibility, It should be pretty easy to wrap all the v3
> modules in a v2 conversion layer that will add the extra 'features' like pyformat.
And how is bolting on a conversion layer "super simple" compared to not
breaking backwards compatibility in the first place?
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Carsten Haese
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