Evaluating opinions - FilePro Error Messages

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:13:00AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > > > Never support this in a million years. After I attach to a
> > > > record with a lookup, why should it not allow me to change
> > > > a KEY field any way I want. How does it know what I will do
> > > > next? You are asking it to change a fundemental feature, to
> > > > protect bad logic.
> 
> > > I concur entirely.  That's not the proper solution.
> 
> > I was thinking off the cuff. After Nancy went into it, I could
> > see that it was a bad solution. I was trying to think of a
> > way to prevent the programmer from shooting themselves in the
> > foot--especially ones just learning.
> 
> I have a question so I can understand a bit better. When it was
> mentioned "after I attach to a record with a lookuup, why should it
> not allow me to change a KEY field any way I want".
> 
> Does this mean the key field in the looked up record, or the key
> field in the record from which the lookup is being made.

The issue, specifically, was "the key field in the remote file which
comprises the index you looked up in to get there".  Mark has already
recanted.

Cheers,
-- jra
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