Re: A new proof of the superiority of set oriented approaches: numerical/time serie linear interpolation

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 07:36:00 GMT
Message-ID: <Ahg_h.156338$6m4.76752_at_pd7urf1no>


Jon Heggland wrote:
> paul c wrote:
>

>>I certainly do.  RT isn't as complicated or subtle as this thread is
>>making it out to be.  Relvars are nothing more a language device (as are
>>dbvars), for talking about relations, whether the language is D or
>>English.  They merely serve to save us enumerating a relation everytime
>>we refer to it.

>
>
> I think this is oversimplifying. Constraints are associated with
> variables, so we need the variables for something more than value aliases.
> ...

Hadn't thought of that, perhaps it is so, I'm not sure yet. Still thinking of a constraint as an expression that produces a value from one or more others.

p Received on Thu May 03 2007 - 09:36:00 CEST

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