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Pete Cordell wrote: > Someone mentioned the word 'combinatorial', but I couldn't find the > e-mail it related to. In case it refers to a different combinatorial to > the one I'm thinking of,... That was me ... > the problem I've encountered with fixing limits is when multiple nested > structures have non-unity cardinality. For example, a book may have a > number of volumes, which have a number of chapters, that have a number > of sections, that have a number of sub-sections, that have a number of > paragraphs, and which have a limit on the maximum number of characters > in a paragraph (e.g. a string constraint). > > If you assign a reasonable number to each level, by the time you > multiply it all out, you get a huge number that probably doesn't help > you. If you try to limit the maximum size to something useful, your > 'local' limits end up too small to be useful. You've given a very nice example of the kind of thing I was thinking about. Tom P
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