in reply to Your Perl 6 wishlist?

Your number 1 is exactly in line with my number 1.

For me, DBI is Perl's killer app. I realize it's CGI or mod_perl for others, but without DBI I couldn't use Perl in most of the places that I have used it up to now. Until we have a real Perl 6 version of DBI (hyperoperators on result sets, anyone? :-), I'd be content to be able to use the exsting P5 version.

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Re^2: Your Perl 6 wishlist?
by mugwumpjism (Hermit) on May 24, 2005 at 05:35 UTC

    Let's just be sure not to mention database independance anywhere this time. Because as we all have become painfully aware, DBI provides database driver independance, not database independance. 

    $h=$ENV{HOME};my@q=split/\n\n/,`cat $h/.quotes`;$s="$h/."
."signature";$t=`cat $s`;print$t,"\n",$q[rand($#q)],"\n";

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      My plans for a query rewriting mechanism in DBI (via a preparse method) never got off the ground in DBI v1. But DBI v2 will be implemented in Perl 6 and will, I expect, include at least the mechanism from the start. Tim Bunce - just passing through...
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