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Re: Operationalize orthogonality

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 1 Jun 2006 07:08:02 -0700
Message-ID: <1149170882.786809.43820@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 





Tony D wrote:

>




> So far as I'm concerned, this sort of overloading of values is utterly

> shoddy. A number is a number, a string is a string and a boolean is a

> boolean. This sort of overloading is precisely the sort of nonsense

> enumerated types were invented to resolve.




Hear hear!




Marshall
Received on Thu Jun 01 2006 - 09:08:02 CDT












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