I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you are a database programmer. I've had this same discussion before and had the same argument from the data analyst.
There is no need, IMHO, to insist that ID's be strings. ID's can just as easily be a number which is actually easier to generate. A GUID makes a fine ID if you are using a Windows platform. Having said that, database keys may be strings that sometimes force the object IDs to be strings. However, in most languages object IDs are generated in the VM anyway, so you rarely get to see what they are. Bottom line is to use what makes sense and not to enforce rules just for the sake of it. John Hebley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jhon Jairo Cortes Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:34 PM To: Rose_Forum Subject: (ROSE) Number vs String datatypes Hi list. We are doing a Desing rigth now, I'm promulging that the types of all the id's in the system should be String, even more, I said that the only things that should be number is the ones that will suffer aritmetic operations, otherwise it should be string. This come from my own thinking and i believe this is good to avoid conversion and masking problems. Am I rigth, what do you think about? thanks. ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum *************************************************************************
