Re: First Impressions on Using Alphora's Dataphor

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:56:13 +0200
Message-ID: <412e5c87$0$65124$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Laconic2 wrote:

> "Josh Hewitt" <lajos.nagy_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1c92edeb.0408260910.60242a59_at_posting.google.com...
>

>>- Although it is logical after giving it a little thought, it came as a
>>  nasty surprise that Dataphor demands that all scalar types that might
>>  appear in a context where duplicate elimination is required must have
>>  the less-than (Dataphor calls it 'iLess') operator defined on them.

>
> Yes, it is logical.

It makes some intuitive sense to me. Would you care to elaborate? I would appreciate that, and I suspect more readers would. Received on Thu Aug 26 2004 - 16:56:13 CDT