Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample

[F. Wittenberger]

> have written one that was modeled on JDBC, ODBC, or Perl's DBI. I'm not
> saying that's the right thing, but I think people coming from other
> languages would find the availability of familiar interfaces nice. Is that

I can't say too much about the interfaces, since I'm not famillar with
them.  Just the risk: they might not fit well for Scheme.  I,
personally, even prefer to contrain myself to a pure functional subset
of Scheme if possible.

> group of people worth considering? (I'm not being sarcastic: I don't
> know.)

They'll probably reject the ')))))...'-Trailer anyway (as I did before).

> One area where I've been hassling Johannes is that his interface currently
> cannot tell me how many rows were updated as a result of an INSERT,
> DELETE, UPDATE, etc. If there were a standard for such things, this
> problem would presumably be addressed.