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

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 20 Mar 2007 23:46:50 -0700
Message-ID: <1174459610.841923.5840@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> 





On Mar 20, 10:31 am, "JOG" <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:


>

> [...] Nothing in a

> proposition should ever be hidden from the user. Propositions come

> from outside of the logical layer after all. If an attribute is an

> identifier then it clearly impacts on identifying items in the real

> world.




I buy the "nothing should be hidden" argument, but I can't
decide if a domain that only supports equality is hiding
anything or not.




Marshall
Received on Wed Mar 21 2007 - 01:46:50 CDT












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