Re: A nongeneric bounded string array type (in database code)

From: Robert I. Eachus (rieachus_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/18/03 

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:52:40 GMT

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> Well, the null handling definitely is lacking. No type strength,
> and all numerics must be marshalled into and out of strings, with
> of course, no type checking either. Ad-hoc queries must adopt the
> strangest of null conventions; certainly non-standard ones!

Of course, I don't use strings for numeric data, and when I use
non-standard characters to represent a null text field they are the only
string there (with the curious exception of MIO).

I think you have a different vision of what I am doing than what is
actually going on. I don't have a record type in the database, but rows
  which can be indexed or selected based on using one field as an index.
  (More usually, one field for selection, and others for primary and
secondary sort indexes.) Then, in our example, I would be pulling out
last name, first name, middle name, street address, town, state, zip,
phone-number, or whatever.

I find it much easier to build a web-page with a "few" records displayed
left to right instead of top to bottom. The nice thing is that instead
of choosing some arbitrary spacing for columns, I can make each column
as large (or small) as it needs to be.

All this gets real complicated to explain and very easy to write. 

--
                                         Robert I. Eachus
"Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the 
goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, 
down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or 
down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair 
of an old motorcycle."  -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle 
Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

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