On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
> I disagree with the "basically does all the things that views do"
> if you take
> into consideration the maintainability factor. to me a view is
> just metadata,
> no code. SPT is code. code is more flexible than metadata, but
> also more
> fragile.
I've had the opposite experience. All my VFP apps in the last few
years worked against non-VFP backends, and they all used the same
classes to access the data. They were rock-solid.
> What I would like to see in dabo is some sort of meta data based
> thing. but I
> am still very foggy as to exactly what it is and how it would be
> implemented.
This is only a stumbling block for developers coming with a VFP
mindset who are used to only thinking in views.
-- Ed Leafe
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