THAT is an even greater sin. ...scott
At 08:01 PM 6/29/01 +0200, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > As a clinical applications developer I couldn't help but notice that
> > you are using the patient's age in your PatientType structure. This is
> > generally a bad idea, since the patient age is dynamic. It depends upon
> > the date/time of its evaluation. A much better idea is to use the birth
> > date/time and determine age on the fly, referenced against the curent
> > date/time. That way you're always correct, and don't have to limit the
> > persistance of your data.
> >
> > > DateType Age;
>
> well, i think 'Age' was just a bad name for the variable :) if he
> really meant 'Age', it would have been a UInt16 or so.
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