# Argh. What is the big deal with this? I deleted a screed from my # original mail about this ridiculously overpumped goal.
That's good. :) # Just look at the downsides to the magic generated class : wierdo # issues with visibility, importing, naming, inheritance (quite apart # from the odd current interpretation of inheritance, things like # mixins are a nightmare. Georg had something about this somewhere as # well).... Understood, but these issues don't render the separation of scoped functionality unimportant. Have any other ideas? # There are just so many downsides to having a magic generated class, # I really can't get excited about seperating class and instance (this # is an ORM, remember) methods... If I didn't think combining the functionality in models would confuse people (particularly newcomers), I could probably agree with you. But regardless, I think it's cleaner to keep these functionalities physically separate. Maybe the best thing to do would be to round up as many newcomers as possible and see what they think would be clearer. -- Jonathan Daugherty http://www.parsed.org
