Re: External symbol names

2010-07-21 Thread Henrik Sarvell
you observed such an effect? External symbol names are absolutely constant, there is no way to change them, as the name _is_ the symbol's address in the DB. Are you sure you did not accidentally create new objects? Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject

Re: External symbol names

2010-07-21 Thread Alexander Burger
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

External symbol names

2010-07-20 Thread Henrik Sarvell
I don't know if this has been asked before but I don't think so. I've gotten the impression that ext names can not be relied upon to always be the same for any given object, but what kind of operations will cause them to change?

Re: External symbol names

2010-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Henrik, I've gotten the impression that ext names can not be relied upon to always be the same for any given object, but what kind of operations will cause them to change? Can you describe where you observed such an effect? External symbol names are absolutely constant, there is no way