On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Here is the first proposal for a database independent interface (Dbi)
> [...]
> One question : why using classes ?

To be able to write functions that are not dependent on a particular
database.

Imagine for example that the DB is chosen at runtime.  With this
approach, one has only to write conditional code to create the
[connection] and [conversion] objects, the rest of the source applies
to any DB.  (Some more on this is the file RATIONALE that comes with
the tarball.)

Cheers,
ChriS

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