Ugly ID memories

[DunbarX at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/9/08 6:06:08 PM, bobs at twft.com writes:


> Object ID's are simply a way for the software to uniquely identify an 
> object. That the ID is made visible to the programmer seems to me to 
> be a convenience. Since you can refer to an object by name anyway, 
> there really is no hard fast reason to refer to it by it's ID. It 
> would be like deleting a user profile in Windows, then creating 
> another and giving it the same ID. Hey, actually that would be cool! 
> But I digress.
> 
> 

I have used that feature here and there; it is useful to have an object 
property that never changes regardless of name or number or whatever else that can. 
And do. It is a good thing, and I agreed, way back when, it should not be 
settable. It would have been just another number, then.


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