Re: Database-valued attributes?

Paul Vernon wrote:
> Q. Do D&D explicitly define what a possiable representaion is. I.e. is a
> poss rep with more than 1 component a tuple of those components, or a list,
> a set, an array or just 'a thing with components'?
>
> E.g. would
>
> POSSREP XY_POINT { X NUMERIC, Y NUMERIC }
>
> be the same poss rep as
>
> POSSREP XY_POINT { Y NUMERIC, X NUMERIC }
>
> in thier book?

Those would be the same, I'm sure. The attributes are identified by name, not position. See the Database Foundation Papers #3, IIRC, at dbdebunk.com.

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