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RE: Quantity Element in EDIFACT Version D99B - Bottom lin e
Um, I'm not sure I get your point. Numeric types (that allow exponents and
decimal points) are distinctly different from raw alphanumerics in that
there are specific rules as to which non-digit characters are allowed and
where they can be placed. In the extreme case of a numeric with exponent,
it is possible to have at most one decimal point, one letter (e or E, your
choice) and two minus signs (one in the main part or "mantissa" and one in
the exponent, both leading as far as I know--I'm only talking about EDI
real/numeric types here, not COBOL or, gasp, RPG, or for that matter, PL/I).
In other words, the non-digit characters have very specific function and
meaning.
Best regards,
Bill Chessman
Peregrine Systems, Inc. (though opinions expressed or implied are my own)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Katz [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:59 AM
To: 'New EDI-L'
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT Version D99B - Bottom
line
So I wonder just, what the point is, in having numeric type elements and
components defined in the standards, since any numeric value can have
signs, decimal, exponential factors and whatever else to make it become
an alphanumeric field?
Ron Katz
RK Consulting Inc.
401-334-2463
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Goodrum [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:44 PM
To: 'New EDI-L'
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT Version D99B
I believe your analysis is dead on the money. I think I am just tired
today.
Hence, my continual rambling. I am currently trying to get my head
around
converting EDI docs into an OODB. We have a team here that is strongly
pushing this scenario. After a couple of days of rastlin' the idea. I
still
cannot determine if it is a good idea or a bad one.
P.S. Not a pure OO data structure. It's more of a hybrid XML/O-O thing
that
someone here came up with to perform EAI. They've though of the theory.
I
have to turn it into code.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Mattias [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:30 AM
To: 'New EDI-L'
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT Version D99B
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Goodrum <
To: 'New EDI-L' <
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Quantity Element in EDIFACT Version D99B
> Geez....This is not good. Every single time someone someone asks 'why
didn't
> someone think of this or that' every ol' timer speaks up and starts up
with
> a 'been there-done that' ?
Au contraire, mon ami; c'est Good Thing!
This shows the younger generation is thinking about other ways to get
things
done. Better this than a bunch of automatons mired in a rut, merely
looking
for
the correct pointy-clicky-dragee-droppee-touchy-feely icon upon which to
click.
(It also makes us "ol' timers" feel needed, wanted and appreciated).
Michael Mattias
Tal Systems, Inc.
Racine WI
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