Time for a good fpHistory story...

[Howie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Vaughan" <wvaughan at steelerubber.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:58 AM
Subject: Time for a good fpHistory story...


| GCC Consulting wrote:
|
| >>casting dummy
| > I will ruse this method for declaring record # dummy fields
|
| Can someone share why the word "dummy" was chosen rather than "smart" or
|   "intellegent"? Epecially since variables can be just as smart as a
| field code.
|
| Surely it just didn't happen by default, or for the lack of a better word.
|
| Ho, Ho, Ho!
| --
| Walter

Barry's explanation is the way I remember it too.

Howie