Tim Cook wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:32 +0100, Thomas Beale wrote: > >>We would be interested in opinions on this proposal. I personally do not >>know whether we can regard the ISO and IANA code sets for country, >>language and character-sets as 'safe for all time'; does anyone have >>inside knowledge on this? Any other opinions welcome. > > > I certainly do not have any inside information on the stability of ISO > codes. > > I do think it is fairly obvious that hardwiring ANY specific code set is > against the foundational premise that openEHR specifications define > (hope to define) the future proof EHR model. The only thing we can be > certain of is that things defined today will change in the future.
I agree. We need to have this indirection to handle changes. Even if we are certain that these codes will not change in the future and we feel the need to hardcode them in the software, some enumeration type instead of string type should be used to implement them since string is not type safe. Cheers, Rong - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
