> * Leo <fqy....@tznvy.pbz> [2011-04-23 03:46:05 +0800]: > > On 2011-04-22 23:36 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: >> All these thought are not 100% mature and final. Suggestions welcome! >> From a different perspective, I want to add that if someone doesn't >> care about this field, he or she can completely ignore it and should >> never notice that it is available. > > How about replace DEGREE field with two fields: PREFIX and SUFFIX. They > can be ignored if the user doesn't want to use them so in a sense they > don't get in the way. And these field names are much more general than > DEGREE.
there can be only one prefix but many suffixes, right? I suggest keeping them in a list where first is the prefix and rest are the suffixes, so that "simple" records without any prefixes & suffixes will have just nil there. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.5 (Final) X 11.0.60900031 http://truepeace.org http://thereligionofpeace.com http://palestinefacts.org http://camera.org http://dhimmi.com http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ Democrats, get out of my wallet! Republicans, get out of my bedroom! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/