On 15/02/10 10:32, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:31:14AM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
>>
>> Is there any value in having a two-stage interface?
>>
>> $seq_fn = get_call('nextval(regclass)');
>> $foo1 = $seq_fn->($seq1);
>> $foo2 = $seq_fn->($seq2);
>
> I don't think there's significant performance value in that.
>
> Perhaps it could be useful to be able to pre-curry a call and
> then pass that code ref around, but you can do that trivially
> already:
>
> $nextval_fn = sub { call('nextval(regclass)', @_) };
> $val = $nextval_fn->($seq1);
> or
> $nextfoo_fn = sub { call('nextval(regclass)', 'foo_seqn') };
> $val = $nextfoo_fn->();
Fair enough. Just wondered whether it was worth putting that on your
side of the interface. I'm forced to concede you probably have more
experience in database-related APIs than me :-)
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
