Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Hi Mike,
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>I like the KISS principle and having to re-examine both approaches for every situation is obviously not keeping things simple.
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But you're mis-applying KISS. KISS is a design objective, not a design constrictor.
I'm sure the US wouldn't have landed men on the moon if KISS was applied to prevent reviewing alternatives - it was obviously not a simple job so KISS would have killed it right away.
Cheers,
JimN
>The set filter command filters tables. So why do other commands support filters too? That makes VFP much more complicated. That tendency has good and bad points.
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>Why not just...
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>SET FILTER TO somecondition
>BROWSE
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>BROWSE FOR somecondition
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>Is there really any great improvment by this? Both techniques are valid, but only one technique is essential.
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>You often use the term revert to intelligent keys. Revert implies going backwards.
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