Getting started with Rev Databases

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Mark Wieder wrote:
> > Richard-
> > 
> > Friday, May 13, 2005, 6:44:09 PM, you wrote:
> > 
> > RG> Also, what's the difference between commands
> that start with "revdb_"
> > RG> and those starting with "revDatabase"?
> > 
> > According to the documentation they're synonyms.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> That's curious.  Why would they do that?
> 
> And some seem to be exceptions, like
> revdb_closecursor being a function 
> while  revCloseCursor is a command (and the latter
> doesn't include 
> "database", which might allow it to be confused with
> something related 
> to the pointer).
> 
> Hmmmm....
> 
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
> 

I think those synonyms were added in the time between
Rev 1.5 (unreleased) and 2.0 -- the original XML calls
also started with 'revxml_' but I believe that at some
point this was considered confusing syntax.
FWIW, I'm still using the 'revdb_' calls and quite
happy with them ;-)

Jan Schenkel.

Quartam - Tools for Revolution
<http://www.quartam.com>

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