Death to recursion! Re: Child vs parent records

Ed Kleban Ed at Kleban.com
Sun Dec 11 10:12:14 CST 2005




On 12/11/05 9:45 AM, "Ruslan Zasukhin" <sunshine at public.kherson.ua> wrote:

> 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 :-)

With as many syllables as I use in most of the fancy words when I write, you
have to read my email carefully anyway -- even if you speak very good
English :-)





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