Object naming

[Richard Gaskin]

Consider a simplified problem statement:

You have two objects of the same type in a container, and you want to 
tell them apart but had given them the same name.



    Too Many Daves
    by Dr. Seuss

    Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
    Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
    Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
    You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo!
    Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
    All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
    This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
    As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
    And often she wishes that, when they were born,
    She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
    And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
    And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
    And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
    And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
    Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
    Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
    And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
    One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
    And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
    And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
    And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
    And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
    And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ...
    But she didn't do it. And now it's too late.

--
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems


> Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
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> On 27/07/2020 16:33, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>> There are many ways to refer to things.  The simplest is to use 
>> unambiguous names for things that matter.
>>
> Is there an unambiguous name in this case ? And if so, what is it :-) ?
> 
> A group "A" contains a rectangle "R", and a (sub)group "B". "B" also 
> contains a rectangle "R". (btw - "B" also may contain a subgroup "C", 
> and it too will have a rectangle "R", and ....).
> 
> There is an unambiguous name for the 'most nested' "R", but there 
> doesn't seem to be for the other "R"s. I had expected (or perhaps just 
> hoped) that using a long name would first try to find an exact match, 
> and if that failed it would then find the closest inexact match - but 
> that sadly was just a hope.
> 
> I could (and probably will) use IDs but that doesn't work for 
> duplicating the group - you need to either go in and adjust a script / 
> custom property OR have the group's script find the IDs.
> 
> Or - am I'm missing something ?
> 
> Alex.