On 2 May 2001, at 7:43, Daniel Bertin wrote:

> one more question, since there is no boolean type, and I need to
> create a domain, is it better to have a char Y,N, or integer 1,0 to
> accomodate the use of checkboxes and boolean flags used in my
> application?
>
> are there advantages of one over the other method??

I think it's mostly a matter of taste. I prefer to use 0 for false
and 1 for true in a SmallInt (16bit). Simply because it's language
independant, it case independant and it's a computable value.

Paul




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