[ANN] HOOT: Hacked Object Oriented Transcript

[Geoff Canyon]

On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Dick Kriesel wrote:

> As I discussed with Mark, the problem with storing long ids is that  
> they can
> be brittle.  A stored long id becomes invalid when a developer moves a
> control to a different group.

At least for the purposes of HOOT, the long id is only stored for the  
length of the call, so it shouldn't be a problem. The path to the  
class groups is only initialized each time the library is enabled, so  
that could cause a problem if that stack were moved I suppose.