filePro "eq" (was Re: Question about checks for min and max values)

[Brian K. White]

> Since this state (an empty numeric field) is what started this thread,
> and your argument (or was it Mark's) was that filePro was breaking all
> of these "long established rules" of mathematics and other programming
> languages, such a claim couldn't go unchallenged.  Since neither math
> nor these other languages have the concept of a numeric field with no
> value, how can filePro's logic break their rules?

Maybe thats how fP breaks the rules. Maybe a numeric type must implicitly 
only ever contain numeric values, and fP allows both numeric values and ""

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