Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "vc" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: MV Keys Date: 3 Mar 2006 07:24:37 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1141399477.707086.33490@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1140928045.223226.301140@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <440185c0$0$11076$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <1140963712.820976.72300@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <4401cd8b$0$11062$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <1140981916.897576.34490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <1141000908.277461.101140@t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> <1141180942.125742.288830@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <3bla025sc4m8u59a7qoc09bipjtnh5tmuk@4ax.com> <1141393487.167645.153600@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.244.78.22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1141399483 16366 127.0.0.1 (3 Mar 2006 15:24:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:24:43 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.244.78.22; posting-account=thIdtgwAAAAhUVpIR1L4IFjCXWRKlxtG Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:37191 Jon Heggland wrote: > In article <1141393487.167645.153600@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>, > boston103@hotmail.com says... > > > > Saying that the date is not scalar is akin to claiming that 254 is not > > a scalar because it consists of units, tens and hundreds ;) > > You say that as if it were a silly thing to claim. :) Is it not ? Forgetting about time zones, the date is just a natural number in a peculiar notation (or if one wants to be picky, a subtype thereof). Is the natural number a compound type ? > -- > Jon