Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:02:40 GMT
Message-ID: <4NEdd.294024$3l3.283927@attbi_s03>

"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:xr2dnSzSmoIWOuvcRVn-iw_at_comcast.com...
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> "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
> news:Q3wdd.217587$wV.174119_at_attbi_s54...
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> > I must say I am impressed with your creativity. However, I find this
> > exact solution unsatisfying, but I have a *related* idea which you
> > may find interesting.
> >
> > What if we could *declare* a set according to its properties (constraints,
> > really) and use them as if they were regular sets? So we could have
> > a set ValidSalaries that was declarad as the set of all integers between
> > 0 and 100,000?
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> I hate to keep beating the same dead horse, but won't CREATE DOMAIN do
> exactly this?

Remember, I'm *for* domains.

Marshall Received on Wed Oct 20 2004 - 21:02:40 CDT