At 05:56 AM 10/12/2004, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

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

Of course we need documentation. However, it shouldn't be necessary to
check the docs every time you use a feature in a slightly different way.

>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.

I like that idea - and tracking datatype changes is MUCH easier than
deciding how (and when) to apply constraints, etc.

Regards,


Ann