now i'm curious (Re: [pilot-db-list] calculations with linked fields as arguments?)

[julio s. <jm...@ma...>]

Hi!
Scott Wallace wrote:

>	(+ (int %1) 5)
>  
>
yep! it works, thanks.

>	the problem is that linked fields are viewed as strings, not their 
>original data type, so you need to somehow convert them back to their 
>original type.  I'd like to fix this problem at its root, but it would 
>require a new database format, and it would be pretty hard to make it 
>robust.
>
Now I' m curious.  Your explanation and solution seems good to me. I 
only desire to solve all software problems with that kind of rational 
and no adhoc solution! So - are there a real *problem*?
Sure, user have some work to do (writing 5 more characters :-) but now I 
believe that a good glance on doc files (blushing) would be enough. BTW 
-  I hope that such elucidation is already on docs because I believe 
that my attempt with linked fields is trivial... and lots of users 
appreciate documentation-for-dumbs (blushing again)
Thanks again,
Julio