Re: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-24 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Tim, On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I’m curious why you want to “read” a UUID? I can’t read one and remember > it with or without lowercase characters. It’s just too long. > ​Well, we all seem to have our favorite little data fetishes...

Re: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-24 Thread Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech
On Apr 24, 2017, at 11:37 AM, Kirk Brooks wrote: > I was looking up something else yesterday and came across some comments and > directions regarding UUIDs and saying that they should always be lowercase. > But this isn't a hard rule, apparently. And 4D prefers to uppercase them - > which I find

Re: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-24 Thread Lee Hinde via 4D_Tech
python -c 'import uuid; print uuid.uuid4()' returns: 8f1dad2d-2eec-4da7-b484-63a7e7549824 Not that that’s canonical, just offering another sample. > On Apr 23, 2017, at 10:03 PM, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > I wasn't aware of the argument that they should

RE: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-24 Thread Dennis, Neil via 4D_Tech
> uppercase-non-hyphenated seems like a reasonable cross-platform solution Nicely put :) Upper/Lower with or without dashes, under the hood it is a 128 bit integer, the letters and numbers are just the number in Hex (i.e. it doesn't make a difference on the case) Even Wiki says upper or lower

Re: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-23 Thread Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
I wasn't aware of the argument that they should always be lowercase. it's true that the native function on Windows (UuidCreate, UuidToString) creates lowercase, but on Mac (NSUUID.UUIDString, CFUUIDCreate/CFUUIDCreateString) they are uppercase and also hyphenated. uppercase-non-hyphenated

Re: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-23 Thread Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech
> Le 23 avr. 2017 à 21:41, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> a > écrit : > > Arnaud, > >> [...] >> > ​Yeah - please. The google translate makes no sense. ​ Agree, I prefer Ioda. +++ me: wondering why uuid are uppercase and md5 lowercase… UPPERCASE IS UGLY, IT YELLS me

Re: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-23 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Arnaud, On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > Hi Kirk, > > (feel free to ask for translation if needed) > ​Yeah - please. The google translate makes no sense. ​ -- Kirk Brooks

Re: Why does 4D have uppercase UUIDs?

2017-04-23 Thread Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech
> Le 23 avr. 2017 à 21:21, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> a > écrit : > > [...] > Just curious what that's about and if there's some important distinction > here I'm not aware of. Hi Kirk, (feel free to ask for