Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> But they *are* integers. That is the point behind the "next-key" stuff. An
> integer sits in there, and it gets incremented. Applying a transformation to
> that value is obscuring its origin.
>
> The base64 values also have an ordering (ever hear of strcmp() ?). So this
> point doesn't really seem to apply.
Um, yes, any two strings have an ordering, if you assign values to
their symbols. But we're not *using* the ordering, that's the
important thing.
(The fact that we use ordering trivially as part of the process of
generating a new unique ID is irrelevant. Call it the "next" key is
misleading: it's just a "new" key, and the method by which we
guarantee its uniqueness doesn't need to infect the rest of the code.)
> > - As a developer debugging the code, it's easier for me to
> > recognize and remember shorter strings in an alphabet with more
> > symbols, than longer strings in an alphabet with fewer symbols.
> > Long strings of numbers start to look all alike pretty quickly
> > (at least to me).
>
> That is FUD, too. "abcdef" and "abcdeg" look awfully the same, too.
Nah, calling it FUD is FUD :-). My statement was personal, and
completely accurate. If it's not true for you, that's great -- I
never said it was.
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Received on Fri May 10 22:52:20 2002