Re: CAP draft 07 issues - sections 3 and 4

[Alan Davies <aland@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:38 PM 25/03/2002 -0700, Doug Royer wrote:
> Components are virtual tables and their continued properties
> are columns.
>
> Properties are virtual tables and their parameters are columns.
>
> These are somehow magically merged by the CS (out of scope for CAP)
> by some implementation specific 'parent-id'.

Yes, the implementation of properties/parameters is out of
scope for CAP, so how can we disallow something based on a
reason that we shouldn't know about because it's out of scope?

> We eliminated what we call cross-table joins. So it keeps the
> model simple. That is I can say component.property, but not
> component.propert.paramater.

I've no idea what you mean by that. We decided upon
PARAM(component.property, parameter) instead of
component.property.parameter as a point of syntactical
clarity and consistency; it's got nothing to do with any
of the issues we're discussing.

--Alan