Re: RE: [pilot-db-list] leading 0

[Miguel M. <mi...@yo...>]

Greetings...
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:21:50 +1000, "KANE Peter (CA)" <Pet...@er...> wrote:
> To me this is a very strange thread indeed.
> 
> An integer is an integer. no matter how many leading zeros it is entered
> with, it should be stored as an integer, and formatted and displayed in a
> consistent format for integers.
> 
> A more useful discussion would be about whether db should have user-defined
> formatting of integers, or other number types in the future (or strings for
> that matter).
> 

I couldn't agree more...

						Miguel

C. Miguel Marques, York University, Computing & Network Services
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