[V4MD] please read ALL: what about next idea -- let's take some Arca syntax ?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/22/06 9:44 PM, "Tschoatscho Kettl" <ich at medienzar.de> wrote:

> There is also another interesting question: What should be returned
> as a field's type property? Arca obviously uses Director's types.

In fact SQlLite which is under Arca, has the same set of types.

SqlLite have only  integer, real, string, BLOB. Nothing more.


> This makes sense because Director doesn't make a difference between
> Text or VarChar, Short Or Long, SIngle or Double, but only uses
> string, integer or  float. Even boolean is only an integer which is
> TRUE for anything else than 0.

Yes I see point

> So, the only additional field type
> information one could use from a query result is Director's type,
> because many of Valentina's types are treated in the same way within
> Director.

Actually I wonder what for this type info present in Arca list at all ?!

Try to show me task when you cannot live without it ?

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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