[DISCUSSION] Object Relational Mapping (ORM) for different programming languages

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

Hi Beatrix, Thorsten, Phillip, Shawn

This is second page of article about ORM of Ruby.

    http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/10920_3704126_2

Here interesting looks the work with LINKs.
It is so interesting and so sort syntax that looks like a dream.

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DECLARATION:

    class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
       belongs_to :state
    end

USAGE:

   Contact.find(1).state.abbreviation
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And this raise question if possible get such or similar syntax for REALbasic
or C++ or other languages that Valentina supports.

And as far as I see answer is NO.

BECAUSE it seems to me Ruby allow return some kind of general parent Object
class and send him any messages, i.e. Calls of methods.

C++ and REALbasic are strict type languages. You cannot take REALobject and
calls method of its sub-class.

May be such style possible in Obj-C.
I doubt about C#, but also may be.


Comments?


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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