- copy_container() removed. ClauseVisitor.traverse() now features "clone"
flag which allows traversal with copy-and-modify-in-place behavior
- select() objects copyable now [ticket:52] [ticket:569]
- improved support for custom column_property() attributes which
feature correlated subqueries...work better with eager loading now.
- accept_visitor() methods removed. ClauseVisitor now genererates method
names based on class names, or an optional __visit_name__ attribute. calls
regular visit_XXX methods as they exist, can optionally call an additional
"pre-descent" enter_XXX method to allow stack-based operations on traversals
- select() and union()'s now have "generative" behavior. methods like
order_by() and group_by() return a *new* instance - the original instance
is left unchanged. non-generative methods remain as well.
- the internals of select/union vastly simplified - all decision making
regarding "is subquery" and "correlation" pushed to SQL generation phase.
select() elements are now *never* mutated by their enclosing containers
or by any dialect's compilation process
Mike Bayer