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  3. October 2008

Re: More than 99 indicators needed

I like the idea of putting ASCII transparency codes in the data stream. It's easier than it sounds.

Barbara Morris wrote:
Tom Liotta wrote:

I guess that the point I'm making is that _any_ subsequent developer better be very clear on what is going on with this.


And as Bruce Vining pointed out, it doesn't work anyway. I don't think there's any way to use 99 indicators to represent any _combination_ of 100 truth values. Using the double-indicator scheme would work if you only wanted to print out one field, but if you want to print out more than one, it's not possible to set on an arbitrary combination of the double-indicators without accidentally setting on additional double-indicators. Setting the double indicators 0147 and 0254 also sets on 0154 and 0247.


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