On the one hand it's no fun having to work late all the time, on the other I like the people I work with and at least I have a job. So no updates recently. I'm still trying to work on SEQUENCE, though with varying success.

In the meantime I've had, for me, lots of comments recently to older posts so I thought I'd link to them here.

Brian Ewins added some links to my plea for Query Rewriting information. The Patterns for Object/Relational Access Layers looks well worth a read. I'll pass it round at work as well. We currently delegate the O/R mapping portion of our system to CocoBase but have our own system of delegates and factories to provide access to it.

A comment in support of the current format for providing input to SEQUENCE. I agree with James. Saying what the return value is close to the point where you describe the call makes it easier to see what's going on. I'm thinking of also trying to support a more Java style syntax as well. Perhaps:

void foo(Bar b) {
  Zoop baz() 
}

Scott Walters added a really interesting comment to Design Patterns Are about Perl and design patterns and the Perl community. He has a Savannah project to produce a Perl Design Patterns Book. The content so far, about 100 pages, is on line at TinyWiki - PerlDesignPatterns. I followed the SkipTheIntroduction link initially as it was all very complicated for someone who last used perl in anger four years ago. Going back to the beginning and looking at the simpler ones first was a much better bet for me:)