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Subject: Re: processing on put to .VAL field
From: [email protected] (William Lupton)
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:18:14 -1000
Dear all,

In response to my:
> It would seem more logical always to set it [.VAL PP attribute] TRUE
> (but that might break some existing code I suppose).

Marty said:
> It seem reasonable to set PP(TRUE) on the VAL field of all record types.
> Can anyone see a problem if we do this?

and Ned said:
> YES ! I think changing these values now would be a great disservice to 
> application developers !  There are likely databases that have been designed
> to account for this...

...including my own now! I agree with Ned. I think that highlighting the
potential problem (and maybe documenting it in a future version of the IOC
reference manual) is all we can do for now.

William

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