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Aggressive Auto-completion
As described above, the auto-update algorithm per se will be
correct only when the updated field is not the deduced
value. If a deduced value is updated, we require
additional information about the fields as shown by the celsius
fahrenheit example later in the Section 5.
An aggressive auto-completion ignores a given field value based on
whether a deduced value is updated or not. The effect is that the
old value is overwritten by a new value. This involves a
run-time manipulation of repository by the extra-information about
field updates. The new values are still computed on the basis of
auto-completion rules specified for a given relationship.
Sunil Kothari
2006-04-29