Clifford Heath <no / spam.please.net> writes: >> I argue that the following features >> would take a big deal of the pain usually connected with ORM without >> changing the validity of the Relational Model. >> * Dynamically, strongly typed values. (Types can be enforced (or even >> ducktyped!) by help of constraints.) >> * Dynamically defined relvars. >> * Dynamic fields. (This is, in the end, dynamic relvars and DKNF). > > What you are describing is a conceptual query language. Look at > ConQuer - not a lot of information about it is available, and > Microsoft owns (but appears not to be progressing) the only > implementation. I was more thinking along the lines of Datalog. >> That said, I honestly have no idea how to implement all this >> efficiently. :-( > > I do, and I'm working on it. Anyone want to help? Or are you happy > just throwing rocks? I'd love to have a look. Where is the code? > Clifford Heath. -- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen / gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org