On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas wrote:
Hi,
> DBCREATE("test170", {{"F", "T", 8, 0}},, .T., "test")
> ? HB_VALTOEXP(DBSTRUCT())
> prints:
> {{"F", "@", 8, 0}}
Yes it is.
> Is it intentional or bug?
It's intentional.
> What is the difference between T,8 and @,8 fields?
They are synonym of the same field type
> Which one is "more correct" to use?
Hard to say :-). Different languages uses different shortcut names.
AFAIR '@' comes from DBASE so maybe it's the more official one ;-)
Probably we should clean all synonyms but 1-st I will have to create
list of all supported fields by Harbour.
> P.S. if HB_FT_DAYTIME has exactly TIMESTAMP meaning, I suggest to rename to
> HB_FT_TIMESTAMP, to have the same name for the same thing. Otherwise you
> start to think about HB_FT_DAYTIME, HB_FT_DATETIME, HB_FT_TIMESTAMP?
OK, I'll change it. I introduced HB_FT_DAYTIME before we agreed how Harbour
will support TIMESTAMP values.
best regards,
Przemek
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