<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think I just understood what you've all been saying. Sorry about this.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So, if I make my class persistent, it's persistent... period! I don't need to add it to a collection or to the root. I guess that's also what Ian was saying about using class indices as well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>Daniel</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Nov 13, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Robert L. Read wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 09:47 -0500, Daniel Salama wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"> <TT><FONT color="#000000">So, would you say that we based on our approach, we could just store </FONT></TT><BR> <TT><FONT color="#000000">a bunch of random objects (whether person, state, zip, order, etc) in </FONT></TT><BR> <TT><FONT color="#000000">the root and use class indices? Sounds interesting.</FONT></TT><BR> <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> I have to go to the dentist now, but this sounds a bit confused ---- you would EITHER put<BR> things in the root or use persistent classes; doing both doesn't make sense to me.<BR> <BR> <BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">elephant-devel site list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:elephant-devel@common-lisp.net">elephant-devel@common-lisp.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel">http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>