[Nitro] Module name change

[George Moschovitis]

I still think that Inherited is right in this context. But we can do the
following:

- rename the alias to SingleTableInheritance and provide two aliases,
SingleTableInherited and SingleTableParent.

counld you provide this patch?

thanks,
-g.

On 4/20/07, Jonathan Buch <john at oxyliquit.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Did I miss the email where SchemaTableInheritence became
> > SingleTableInheritence?
> >
> > I mean, I much prefer the new name, but given that we already dropped
> the
> > schema_inheritence method, changing the module name is kinda breaky.
>
> well, if we break stuff, then we can also just 'pull through' and make the
> breakages as consistent as possible.  :P
>
> Actually the real one is `SingleTableInherited` now.  I talked with George
> about this on the channel, but I couldn't drive him away from that.
> I will try again now.
>
> class A
>    is SingleTableInherited
> end
>
> class B < A
> end
>
> Lets look at the relation between parent and child first.  `A` is not
> actually
> inherited, in the event of `B` not being around.  This makes no sense in
> and of
> itself in the most cases, but it's nontheless true.
> `B` inherits from A, so it _inherited_ its capabilities.  Does that mean
> that
> `B` is 'single table inherited'?
>
> I may be picking on something 'fluid' here, but I think, that inheritance
> is
> not a property of the parent, but only of the child.  (Think .ancestors,
> there
> is no way to find child classes from the parent.)
>
> I talked with Rayman shortly about this, and he came to the same
> conclusion.
> His idea of a better name for that module:  `STIParent`.  I like that
> choice,
> as it's a description of what 'pattern' is used here (STI) and in which
> position
> it is in this pattern.
>
> So, George, please consider not using Inherited (even if it nicely
> abbriviates
> to STI).
>
> Thank you for listening,
>
> Jo
>
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