Re: Domain Definition
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:20:06 -0800
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"Paul G. Brown" <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > I would say semantics as a vital part of a domain. Consider
> > temperatures; it is not enough to say that the temperature is 25
> > degrees without giving the scale (Celsius?, Fahrenheit?, Kelvin?)
>
> Also Rankine (Fahrenheit adjusted to absolute zero: I implemented this
> once.)
> Modern DBMS
> products (including the open source ones like Postgres) are perfectly
capable
> of supporting a domain like 'temperature' to encapsulate unit and
measure
> (and error, if that's the semantic you'd like).
In general, isn't the whole domain concept backward? People were manipulating quantities since the dark ages and generalized quantity idea as a number. The domain concept would never lifted them to grasp a simple idea that adding 3 apples and 3 oranges results in 6 fruits. Received on Fri Jan 10 2003 - 01:20:06 CET