[Metakit] subviews and python interface

[Thomas Mills Hinkle]

On 5/7/05, Brian Kelley <fustigator at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> A view cannot contain a storage objects, a storage object contains
> views.  A view can contain other views though.  For example
>
> vw = st.getas("user[name:S,history[commands:S]]")
> 
> so now each user has a name and a "list" of strings that were the past
> commands.  The subview can have many different columns of course.

So I never noticed you could do this before. Does this provide
substantial gains over having two views that get linked by an ID? e.g.
in my curren app I store recipes, each of which has a number of
ingredients. The ingredients are in a separate view and then looked up
by the recipe ID.  Is this substantially slower than using a nested
view would be?

It seems like it wouldn't be worth it since it's not intuitive how I
would search all ingredients with this method, but I'm curious to
learn what advantages the nested views might have under the hood.

Tom