Re: Ideas for World Hierarchy Example

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:14:37 GMT
Message-ID: <xlVoh.591337$5R2.324068_at_pd7urf3no>

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
...
> Why use a hierarchy?
>
> I have many bookmarks in my browser. Unfortunately, bookmarks
> are hierarchal. I sometimes want to create the same bookmark under
> more than one category.
> ...

And that's also, I would say, one of the most obvious glaring, idiotic, presumptuous, un-thought of, overlooked, missing features in every mail or news reader I've seen.

No surprise, I guess, when we live in a world where it is common to believe a relational table has two dimensions.

p Received on Wed Jan 10 2007 - 00:14:37 CET

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