Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40b52ae3$0$33919$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>
> > Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> >>...Very very wrong. A relation is a constant.
> > So is a function.
> Just a few posts ago, you wanted to store something in a function.
> You can have it both ways - if the context makes enough of a difference.

Again, shorthand -- sometimes folks say "relation" when they mean "relvar" and I said "function" when it would have been more precise for me to say "funcvar" (ugh! Perhaps there is a better term already otherwise "function variable" sounds a lot better to me than "funcvar").

> In this case I'ld prefer you'ld stick with one.

Alright -- sometimes I can kick that precision part of my brain in gear but often I'm inclined to use shorthand, just as many others do. Fair nough? --dawn Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 02:20:32 CEST