Hi!
On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Sheeri K. Cabral wrote:
Honestly, I have mixed feelings -- I think it's easy to get carried
away, but the book "Practical Issues in Database Management" made
some good points about having custom data types. For instance, it's
perfectly legal to multiply numbers. Most people use a number data
type for something like an age. You wouldn't multiply ages,
though. It talks about having custom data types.
This is one of my big complaints with the current system. It does not
know when an action like "add two URL's" would be a stupid action to
take. It will happily just "do it" and spit out some junk.
The "array" I mentioned previously is the fault of this. I would
prefer objects to say "this is dumb" and to just not allow some
conversions.
Cheers,
-Brian
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