On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:10:19PM +0200, Henrik Sarvell wrote: > This is good news because then the external symbol can be used to access an > object, rendering an explicit autoincrementing id redundant in many > situations.
Yes, especially if you use 'id' to convert the name to/from a number. This is sometimes more convenient than the unwieldy external name when communicating with external programs. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe