On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Zack Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> As an aside, if this is how UUID's are used in ledger, it's going to
> confuse people that are used to UUID's being unique, randomly
> generated, and meaningless (ala those generated by "uuidgen" or
> similar), rather than meaningful matchable hashes of content.  Maybe
> calling them a "hash" or even better using the hash method as the name
> ("md5", "sha1", etc.) would help disambiguate the situation.

Or maybe just "id" - either "hash" or "UUID" is are overly specific,
and if all that's being done here is a straight text comparison (per
John's "foo" example), the SQL-esque "id" (or even "uid") would be
much less confusing.

- Zack

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