Date:         Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:44:08 +0100
Reply-To:     John Whittington <medisci@POWERNET.COM>
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From:         John Whittington <medisci@POWERNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: The WHERE statement does not work for rawdata
Comments: To: "Berryhill, Timothy" <TWB2@PGE.COM>
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At 12:16 22/04/99 -0700, Berryhill, Timothy wrote:
 
>John, One can only assume a programmer of your caliber has never had a
>program neglect to write out, say, a subtotal for a BY group, after dropping
>LAST. in an IF statement.
 
Hmmm - well, quite honestly, Tim, I'm not sure exactly what 'subtotal for a
BY group, I would actually expect to get if I had 'dropped LAST. in an IF
statement' (or in a WHERE statement, come to that!) - unless I'm missing
something, I reckon that probably counts as "potentially confusing
programming'!  Is this really the sort of thing Peter had in mind when he
wrote of "... full and natural support for ... first. and last. processing" ?
 
Regards,
 
John
 
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