[Info-vax] The Gender Fluid IT Crisis

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/30/2017 10:12 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/29/2017 8:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/29/2017 7:33 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 5:26:56 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> Practically no one use BOOLEAN for storing sex even if that
>>>> data type is available. BOOLEAN is for storing TRUE or FALSE
>>>> not anything with two values.
>>>>
>>>> ENUM, CHAR, INT is what is used for what is truly
>>>> an enumeration. None of these have problems with more
>>>> than two values.

> In all the years I did COBOL SEX was a Character, PIC A (or
> usually just X).  If A that gives you 26 possibilities with
> X even more.

COBOL does not have boolean, so it it was not an option.

But I am pretty dure that you would not store sex in a
boolean if you were doing Pascal, C++, Fortran
or even something newer.

Arne