From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-03T07:59:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable names

il Sat, 3 Apr 2004 04:43:58 +0900, David King Landrith
<dlandrith@mac.com> ha scritto::


>
>Since most of our application touches a SQL database in some way (we've 
>rolled our own ruby database API in C to handle persistence layers and 
>eliminate the overhead endemic to the dbd/dbi arrangement, since our 
>tables have 10s of millions of records and we're pushing and pulling 
>gigabytes of data) destructive errors are a real possibility;

would'nt a proper test-only database fit the need better than type
checking ?

(note that I'd like Soft Typing a-la Jscript.net in ruby, I'm just
looking for some good proof of the need for it :)

Btw, have you listed this cool big ruby-based project on the
RealWorldRuby wiki page? :)