FWIW, so would I. Any general idea, Rick, what it would take? Would
Michael be willing to help with this?
I'd be concerned about parallel but separate paths, as discussed
before, but VA sites are starting to complain that can't even get
adequate support for the current system, let alone any new development.
On Oct 8, 2005, at 12:29 PM, 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.
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