Re: By The Dawn's Normal Light
From: Dawn M. Wolthuis <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:43:18 -0500
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:43:18 -0500
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"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message
> news:417bc639$0$43599$ed2e19e4_at_ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
> > Kenneth Downs wrote:
<snip>
> So it's easy to express lists if you have sets or tables to work with.
It's
> also easy to express sets, if you heve lists to work with, as long as you
> have a way to prevent your lists from becoming baggy.
And your reason for not having the database handle the work of ordered lists for you would be that humans are less likely to mess it up? that if the database doesn't have to do it, we want to save it the effort? or what? cheers! --dawn Received on Sun Oct 24 2004 - 21:43:18 CEST