Question about checks for min and max values

Henry Melancon hemelancon at gifinc.com
Wed Jul 27 11:54:13 PDT 2005


I feel the same way about what you stated.  I do not like the inconsistency and that is what prompted my original question.

Henry

 
> --- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > As for "a number with a value", I much prefer the
> > phrasing "a numeric
> > variable to which no value has been assigned".  How
> > such a variable
> > should be expected to behave is, in fact,
> > implementation-dependent, and
> > is the sole item I do *not* take issue with filePro
> > on, here, oddly
> > enough: you can do anything you like with them.
> >
> 
> This is exactly where I *do* take issue with filepro.
> I agree that they should be able to decide how to
> implement this, but once the decision has been made it
> should behave consistently.  All numeric types should
> consistently compare the null value the same way - And
> that is not currently the case.
> 
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
> 
> Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
> fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
> imports.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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