Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> Geoff Worboys wrote;
>>> ...if this was provided, we would get
>>> inundated with complaints that the constraints and defaults were
>>> not applied
>
> At 09:35 AM 10/11/2004, Daniel Rail wrote:
>
>> As long as it is well documented, we can always tell them to RTFM.
>
>
> Maybe it's just that this is a Monday, a local holiday, and a
> beautiful day and I'm stuck in the office, but as a general rule,
> features should be designed so they work as expected. RTFM doesn't
> win hearts and minds.

Pretending that all the functionality in the engine can be used without
reading a bit of documentation is too optimistic, don't you think?

Would you be happy with BASED ON functionality? This way, it would take only
the data type and everybody's clear it's not the whole domain.

C.