[Maypole] specifying different names for classmetadata elements

[Dave Howorth]

Tony Bowden wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:11:30PM +0000, Simon Flack wrote:
>>You can define moniker() and plural_moniker() in your model classes. I'm 
>>not sure how this would affect the rest of the system. AFAIK, they're 
>>only presentational, so it should be ok to do that.
> 
> They're not only presentational.
> 
> Class::DBI uses them for a variety of purposes; mostly for guessing
> arguments in relationships.

Maypole itself uses them as well. It uses them to create the alternative 
template variable names (i.e. 'beers' for 'objects'). So they'd better 
continue to have GluedTogetherSemantics; not ideal for displaying Long 
Table Names.

Cheers, Dave