2008/4/19, Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Op zaterdag 19-04-2008 om 16:53 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Inoussa > OUEDRAOGO: > > > 2008/4/18, Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > In several places you can specify a list of fieldnames, seperated by > > > semicolons. For example: 'field1;field2'. Question is: should this be > > > allowed: 'field1; field2'? Or should a "Field not found: ' field2'" > > > exception occur? (Note the space) > > > > > > Ie: should I add a trim(fieldname) to the code, or not? What do you guys > > > think? > > > > Why not provide a boolean option "TrimFieldName" ? > > > I'm building a general db-framework. Not a program-bloatification > tool. ;)
If this option cause "program-bloatification", I think we do disagree on the meaning of "program-bloatification" >..You can add options for everything, but that won't solve all > problems. You have to make a choice, sometimes. Add an option _is_ also a choice ;-) And oh, choice is not going to solve all your problems as well ;-) > I won't add the trim, a programmer can add it if he wants to before he > passes a fieldname. IMHO it is acceptable. -- Inoussa O. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
