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Alaric B. Snell wrote: > I don't think so. Adding more restrictive typing doesn't change the data in > the documents, it just makes automated processing easier. Instead of allowing > a date field to contain "yesterday", "my birthday", "1/2/2002" (note the > ambiguity; 1st feb or 2nd jan) and so on you restrict it to a specific date > type written "YYYY-MM-DD", and the increased rigidity makes it possible to > write code that can be shown to handle all the cases. But...that's not at all stronger typing, it's stronger syntax. > Yeah! ASCII, DNS, TCP/IP and all those other tightly defined binary protocols > just need to be rewritten every year, don't they? I think we'd have loved to get a chance to rewrite ASCII, only that proved difficult to do too early. -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...> Research Engineer, Expway 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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