[Dbix-class] RFC: Syntactic sugar

[Matt S Trout]

Somebody posted a proposal (and an evil Want hack as a possible 
implementation) for a neat bit of syntax, but (1) it's attached to an old 
thread, (2) it didn't particularly define what the syntax would do.

But it's got me thinking about extra sugar again; we've now mostly got a core 
I'm happy to see serious sugar built on top of (all automagic and no 
primitives to fall back to was one of my great problems customising CDBI, 
hence my worrying about getting the basics right more than anything else 
recently).

So, what things are you doing with DBIx::Class that works but where the syntax 
is clumsier or more verbose than they'd like, and what would your ideal 
interface to these things be? Lets get a discussion going (but stick to 
syntax, not implementation please; we'll figure out how to implement it once 
we've decided what we're actually trying to implement :)

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