Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

[John Cowan]

Ozzi Lee scripsit:

> Let me know what you think. If someone's already got something going I'd 
> like to pitch in as well.

I suggest that a row be an a-list, and that null columns be represented
by being non-existent in the a-list.  If you end up preferring a plain
list or a vector, then use (void) instead -- I am trying to get this
standardized as the Chicken representation of SQL's NULL.

In reality, though, I think portability between databases is more
hypothetical than real.  Projects typically start with one database and
stick to it, for moving between databases *even if a portability layer
is in use* turns out to be hard -- all sorts of stuff outside the main
code base ends up changing (path names, load scripts, whatever).

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