Re: atomic

On Nov 1, 6:24 pm, paul c <toledobythe..._at_ooyah.ac> wrote:
> Roy Hann wrote:
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> ...
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> > Two indentical-looking tuples can mean entirely different things. I can
> > think of any number of meanings for {Roy, 47}. Maybe it's my name and age.
> > Or my name and the number of illegitimate children I have. Or maybe it's my
> > father's name and his house number. Who knows, until I tell you?
>
> > Roy
>
> I'm still looking for an example of a predicate that uses RVA's where an
> empty RVA in a tuple makes sense.

I suspect that makes sense to me might not to you ;-) but I'll toss out an optional list of keywords in a predicate as a possible empty RVA in a tuple. Another example is OtherLastNames, FormerLastNames or AliasLastNames. One row in the tuple might include only a "maiden name" for a person, another might have two other last names used by this person (other than the value of LastName in this row) and a third might be the empty set. HTH --dawn Received on Fri Nov 02 2007 - 20:20:44 CET