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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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Neil Bothwick |
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Loose bits sink chips. |
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