Hi, I'm seeing the following behavior of capitalization of method names for Class::DBI (comments in the code, code not runnable, would need db): 
package Foo
use base 'Class::DBI';

# declare columns to be capital letters to
# coincide with database column names.
Foo->columns(All=>qw/ID STATUS/);

# In the place where Foo is used
my $foo = Foo->retrieve(100);

# getters
$foo->STATUS();      #  ok
$foo->get('STATUS'); #  ok
$foo->Status();      #  ok
$foo->get('Status'); #  ok

# setters
$foo->STATUS(3);       # ok
$foo->Status(3);       # not ok: can't locate object method Status
$foo->set('STATUS',3); # ok
$foo->set('Status',3); # ok

# elements in @columns are all lower cased
my @columns = $foo->columns;

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Basically there seems to be some inconsistency as to the cases of method names, and columns are lower cased internally. Any comments as to the reason?

In reply to lower case column names for Class::DBI by johnnywang

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