Death to recursion! Re: Child vs parent records

Ruslan Zasukhin sunshine at public.kherson.ua
Sun Dec 11 17:45:31 CST 2005


On 12/11/05 5:32 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> And providing a powerful, generalized BinaryLink mechanism that can be used
> to define 1:M, M:M, M:1, and 1:1 links... but then telling the user
> 
>     "Oh but if you have M:1 in your mind change it to 1:M in the call to
>      CreateBinaryLink or else the EVRecursionDirection parameters will work
>      wrong when you call FindLinked."
> 
> is limiting, unnecessary, and offers the potential for confusion and error.

Okay I agree 
 
> My subject should not have been "Death to Recursion!"  it should have been
> "Death to Inconsistent nomenclature in functions that define a link from
> from functions which use a link".
 
> But  "Death to Recursion!" is shorter and has a nice ring to it.  It got
> your attention, didn't it ?

Hard to say

I read all your letters very carefully :-)

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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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