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On Sunday 20 September 2015 10:19:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can |
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> > > > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that |
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> > > > they are human-readable. |
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> > > Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable. |
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> > > Labels are human *understandable* |
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> > Well, it isn't often I can call someone else a pedant, but now's my big |
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> > chance so I'm taking it - pedant! |
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> One of the OED definitions of readable is "interesting or pleasant to |
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> read". I stand by my original statement, argumentative pedants |
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> notwithstanding. :P |
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I agree with you. It's Alan I called a pedant for trying to split hairs. |
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I had a trial version of OED* on my mobile, but it was not good so I've |
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reverted to Chambers, which includes "legible" as its first definition of |
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Readable, and "clear enough to be deciphered" as its first definition of |
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Legible. |
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* Actually I think it was the ODE (the Oxford Dictionary of English), which |
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has been criticised widely and is not their best dictionary. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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