Fw: RE: [Kansas-general] A boolean() method?

[Kirk Haines]

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From: "Kirk Haines" <khaines at enigo.com>
To: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge at qwest.com>
Sent: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:25:02 -0400
Subject: RE: [Kansas-general] A boolean() method?

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:10:33 -0500, Berger, Daniel wrote

> Seems like a reasonable idea.  The syntax seems fine, though perhaps
> "boolean" isn't the best method name.  I was thinking "found?",
> "row_returned?", "exists?" or something along those lines, since Ruby
> typically uses '?' as part of method names for methods that return true
> or false.  But, that's up to you.

Yep.  Those are all better names.  I kind of like exists? since that is used 
elsewhere.

> Another possibility would be to do a 'count' behind the scenes and
> return an integer.  In Oracle this would be a simple "select count(*)
> from foo where ...", though I have no idea how portable that is.  You
> could always have both (assuming this doesn't already exist - I 
> didn't check).

I have added a count() method, actually, and this exists? method, 
internally, really breaks down to doing a count and seeing if the # is > 0.

Thanks,

Kirk
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