Yes, and so would George Timson's enhancements we were shown in Boston. On Saturday 08 October 2005 08:43 pm, Greg Kreis wrote: I second Greg's motion.. it would be a great extension.
Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Frederick D. S. Marshall wrote: >> Dear Michael, >> >> FileMan version 22 was originally suppsed to include extensible data >> types, including typing of functions, which would have taken us >> halfway to real methods. There was discussion of sub- and super- >> types, but we were going to wait to decide whether to include it in >> 22 or wait for 23 depending on how quickly the extensible data types >> work proceeded. Michael Ogi demoed his code to us, and it was >> beautiful, even including multi-field datatypes like blood pressure. >> >> Unfortunately, VA management at the time (1994? 5?) pulled the plug >> because we would be leaving FileMan within the next year or two, >> something none of the technical folks believed was possible. Time >> has proven the management of that time wrong, and the technical >> folks correct. With Rob Kolodner and other pro-VistA managers at >> the helm now, VA may support us in resurrecting this work; we could >> take Michael Ogi's work back off the shelf, update it for the >> current version of FileMan, and release it. >> >> In the meantime, FileMan will let you do sub-typing and super- typing >> manually, by coding all the logic to support it in MUMPS and weaving >> it into FileMan through programming hooks. Also, mechanisms such as >> that Greg has described, along with certain package-specific >> features, can be leveraged to speed things up for you. >> >> Yours truly, >> Rick > > I, for one, would love to have that work see the light of day. > > === > Gregory Woodhouse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Nothing is as powerful than an idea > whose time has come." > -- Victor Hugo > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
