Re: [GENERAL] Avoiding repeating simple field definitions

2017-02-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/2/2017 7:20 AM, Guyren Howe wrote: I saw a thing somewhere about avoiding repeating the same field definitions. So an app I’m working on uses an exactly 6-character sting as an identifier, which appears in many places. are you talking about data normalization ? https://en.wikipedia.org/

Re: [GENERAL] Avoiding repeating simple field definitions

2017-02-02 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/02/2017 07:20 AM, Guyren Howe wrote: I saw a thing somewhere about avoiding repeating the same field definitions. So an app I’m working on uses an exactly 6-character sting as an identifier, which appears in many places. The thing would be? Can you show an example of the 6 character stri

[GENERAL] Avoiding repeating simple field definitions

2017-02-02 Thread Guyren Howe
I saw a thing somewhere about avoiding repeating the same field definitions. So an app I’m working on uses an exactly 6-character sting as an identifier, which appears in many places. IIRC, the thing I read proposed defining a type AS IMPLICIT, but I’m not sure. Mainly because the docs urge cau