David, what you reference in your last paragraph is popularly known
as a DWIM processor ;^)
Jim
At 8/10/2011 07:38 PM, David Lee wrote:
>If you want magic to happen that always does the 'right thing' (citation
>needed) in software and reads the minds of the programmer's intent instead
>of what you actually told the computer to do your either in the wrong field
>or the wrong century.
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