V
- validation
- avoiding
- by maintaining atomicity
- in API procedures
- existence checking
- signalling errors
- type checking
- validating arguments
- validation tests
- validity interval
- making as long as possible
- specifying for variables
- value arrays
- value lists
- value types
- enumerating symbols
- hierarchy of
- representing
- using indexed attributes
- summary of representing
- truth values
- values
- benchmarking results for
- assigning
- referencing
- representing
- summary of representing
- variables
- See also parameters and local variables
- avoiding
- embedding in subobjects
- time-based histories
- comparing with typed attributes and parameters
- creating
- external
- in attributes
- subclasses of
- data seeking
- causing
- limiting
- data server for
- default update interval for
- detecting changes in
- end user displays for
- expiration time for
- formulas for
- forward chaining
- for data-driven processing
- options for
- to external
- when it occurs
- guidelines for using
- external
- general
- hierarchy of data types
- representing
- external data, using
- historical data, using
- simulated data, using
- using
- for complex histories
- only when necessary
- validity interval for
- making as long as possible
- specifying
- version information
- controlling, using GFR
- releasing applications, using
- version information objects
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