I suppose if people would rather have it called "transactions" I can
rename it transactions.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
On 9/20/06, Joshua D. Drake <..hidden..> wrote:
> Chris Travers wrote:
> > On 9/19/06, David Tangye <..hidden..> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:27 -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> >>> Hi Tony,
> >>>
> >>> I think it is too late to change the name of the table to
> >>> transactions, but I will consider it.
> >> Its never too late to correct something, *if* its not right, surely?
> >
> > You have a point. But I don't think this is at this point an issue of
> > one being "right" and the other being "not right" at the moment. In
> > this case, I think it is a matter of stylistics. Both names are
> > adequate and adequately descriptive, and both names have some slight
> > shortcomings.
>
> Well this really is semantics. We are essentially dealing with a ledger
> there for having ledger in the transactions name is redundant. It
> reminds me of people that do this:
>
> tbl_foo
> view_bar
>
> Which is silly.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
>
> >> Hmm, put another way: Ouch, isn't this sounding a tad like the sort of
> >> reaction we did not like when it came out of the SL camp?
> >
> > If you make a case that it is broken, we will fix it :-) Right now,
> > this is a matter of whether we have consistant style and type a few
> > extra characters or whether we shorten the name a bit and change the
> > style of the rest of the db as we rewrite it. I think it is too late
> > to revisit this sort of decision unless a case can be made that it is
> > materially wrong. Otherwise, we can stop coding while we debate in
> > minute detail the arbitrary decisions made in the coding standards.
> > :-)
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> > Chris Travers
> >
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