Re: [ANN] Dado 1.0

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On May 3, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Tomas Guisasola Gorham wrote:

> 	Some time before the development of this library (Dado)
> we tried to define all sort of Lua functions and constructors to
> help the definition of all SQL.  But we does not succeed in this
> effort for various reasons, and now I think it is better to create
> just a small set of constructors and some string manipulation
> facilities (with some trick you can build the above join using
> table.concat).

I went down that rabbit hole as well, e.g:

http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/DB/TestModel.lua
http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/DB/TestQuery.lua

But one usually end up with something even more baroque than SQL itself.

FWIW, here is an alternative usage pattern:

http://lists.luaforge.net/pipermail/kepler-project/2008-April/002561.html