[odb-users] Multiple placeholders

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Aarón,

Aarón Bueno Villares <abv150ci at gmail.com> writes:

> Not necessarily, isn't?. The ODB compiler could generate so many template
> parameters as ocurrences of (?) or something like that (I don't know the
> relationship between your "core code" and your "generated code", but I
> guess the placeholder management could be done on the generated code
> without using variadic templates, though it could be worst from a design
> point of view).

Yes, you are wrong ;-). The query() function is part of the database class
and is not auto-generated.


> Anyway, it doesn't need to break retrocompatibility; if a user cannot
> compile C++11 code, they can't use queries with multiple-placeholders,
> and that's all.

There are already a thousand little knobs like these in ODB (look for
example at smart pointer support) and I would much prefer not to add
yet another one. We are planning to drop C++98 after the next release
anyway.


> While inventing, another idea could be adding numeric placeholders: (?0),
> (?1), etc, similar to those of boost::format.

Let's get multiple placeholders working first.

Boris