somebody wrote:
> (*) If you ask the user the year first, month next, it's trivial to validate
> the day. 

I used to work on systems where the questions asked depended on previous 
answers. And not just simple stuff like not asking the names of the children 
if you said you have no children, but stuff like applying interest charges 
and volume discounts, and if the result was enough extra money, asking how 
to refund it, for example. Or asking which portfolios it was to go into.

Given the clients, it would have been a nightmare had we not been able to 
drive the whole thing.  (Since it was back in DOS days and hence all text, 
the question never came up.)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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