From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Ada Calendar oddity <was Re: C date package>
Date: 2000/05/11
Date: 2000-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <391ADECC.BCE77DDA@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3919CC94.538DDBA0@online.no
"Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> --snip
> > The reason is that driver's licenses expires as you get 100 years old. So
> > mine expires in 2073.
> >
> > If one wanted to use the Year type in Ada.Calendar for birthday and
> > expiration date, one would get an constraint error when one issued
> > drivers licences for these born this year. Wouldn't one?
> --snip.
>
> That would be a wrong use of the type. The drivers license "problem" is
> a database issue. You should not use something that is internal to Ada
> in that context.
>
> Greetings,
This seems to imply the assumption that the database would not be implemented
in Ada. For some purposes this is reasonable (SQL is frequently nice, and has
already been done). For other purposes it doesn't seem reasonable at all. If
I don't need a full relational database, why should I need to drag one along?
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[not found] <l0313030eb53d1408aee7@[144.205.16.58]>
2000-05-09 0:00 ` C date package Geoff Bull
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Ada Calendar oddity <was Re: C date package> Preben Randhol
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Charles Hixson [this message]
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-19 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <392869F0.D88F056A@acenet.com.au>
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-27 0:00 ` Reinert Korsnes
2000-05-27 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-10 0:00 ` C date package Geoff Bull
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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