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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-7453:
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Hoss, consider the possibilities of using non-ascii unicode letters (valid Java 
identifiers). Perfectly fine to call it {{docλ}}. Or even better, just {{ℵ}}. 
{{ℵSet}}. {{ℵIterator}}. Think of it, wouldn't that be truly unique.

> Change naming of variables/apis from docid to docnum
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7453
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7453
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ryan Ernst
>
> In SOLR-9528 a suggestion was made to change {{docid}} to {{docnum}}. The 
> reasoning for this is most notably that {{docid}} has a connotation about a 
> persistent unique identifier (eg like {{_id}} in elasticsearch or {{id}} in 
> solr), while {{docid}} in lucene is currently some local to a segment, and 
> not comparable directly across segments.
> When I first started working on Lucene, I had this same confusion. {{docnum}} 
> is a much better name for this transient, segment local identifier for a doc. 
> Regardless of what solr wants to do in their api (eg keeping _docid_), I 
> think we should switch the lucene apis and variable names to use docnum.



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