Re: Negative Numbers in "Identity" or" Autonumber" fields

Bob Badour wrote:
...
> As a matter of fact, I recently suggested using the negative range for
> extending a system. The positive range of one key was exposed to the
> users who naturally started using it frequently in their communications.
> ...

That could be smart. I remember a group of smart people trying to figure out how to retrofit limitless tail recursion to a compiler and interpreter and after a period of months, they proposed a great number of changes. Whereas the language forbade certain characters, like "#" ala SQL, if I recall, which the interpreter could have recognized without the compiler ever knowing about. I estimated the change cost at about a half day, guaranteed! Of course, it would have been embarrassing to go that route after all that study time.

p Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 17:52:45 CDT