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Re: IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better than I

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• Subject: Re: IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better than IDs...
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:04:32 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3BF19CC0.1985DC78@a...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:20 pm, Marcus Carr wrote:
> Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> > Again, beyond validation I've NEVER found the ID/IDREF information
> > useful.
>
> This from the guy who built the wonderful CONREF support into
> DynaText...:-) That was a _very_ sweet use of ID information.

Ahh, but that didn't really use the information at runtime though... ;-)

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  • Re: IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better than IDs...
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