On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 23:07 -0600, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:

[KSB] <...snip...>

> The main problem I have run into is when one of the nodes is null, 
> with GT.M doesn't allow in VistA (I think it is possible to configure 
> it to allow this!).  Isn't there a command to list out the various 
> nodes in a reference?

[KSB] It's not that GT.M doesn't allow a null subscript.  This is
configurable (the default is to not allow them).  However, null
subscripts are generally frowned upon in M applications, and I believe
that VistA standards prohibit their use.

Note that GT.M also has an option to collate null subscripts per the M
standard (before all subscripts) or a historical GT.M way (between
numeric and string subscripts).  The default is to collate them the
historical GT.M way (in order to not break existing applications), but
it is trivial to specify the M standard way a database is created
(details in the technical bulletin at
http://www.sanchez-gtm.com/user_documentation/targets/GTM_Null_Subscripts.html).

If null subscripts are prohibited by an application, the collation of
null subscripts is of course irrelevant.

-- Bhaskar


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