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Jon,
With the availability of user-defined types, I wonder if field-reference
files belong in new work. They look like a "good idea" to me, but I
have not yet used them. I would be glad to hear of user experience.
For example, how onerous is it in practice to decide what aggregate and
arithmetic operators (or whatever) for each type and to define them?
Fer shur, it's more code. And as valuable as type safety is, I cannot
remember that I have ever accidentally added a customer number to a
dollar amount.
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Is there a more modern way to provide the functionality given
by EDTCDE() or EDTWRD() on a field in a field-reference file?
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Cheers,
Terry.
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 13:02 -0400, Jon Paris wrote:
My brain tells me that in recent releases a native SQL equivalent of
the field reference file was added to the product.
Can't find any reference to it though - am I imagining it or simply
not Googling with the right words?
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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