RE: Normalization was Left AS/400 and Returned

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Fisher, Don wrote:

> A good approach as far as it goes.  I've found that coding rules like that
> makes sense only when one allows for exceptions.  The general rule is there
> are always exceptions.  You may be fortunate enough to work in a place
> without exceptions, which would be the exception to prove the rule, yes?

:)  In the general case you are right on the money: there are always 
exceptions.  In this specific case so far there haven't been.  When 
exceptions are required, the first question I always ask myself is:  why? 
What are the circumstances that lead to this exception?  Can those be 
coded for?

Something I've been thinking about (but not yet coded) is "pluggable 
rules".  While I think this is fairly common in other programming I've 
never seen something similar in RPG.

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> Neither.  I'd find out what the rules are for when it is open/closed and
> code those rules.  No file/table needed.  In fact, I've already done this.
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James Rich

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