"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message news:44C3FB5B.8010604@crystalclearsoftware.com...
Gennaro Prota wrote:
About the name, isn't "identifier" meant as "something which gives an identity" rather than as "C++ grammar identifier"?
I guess my issue is that identifier normally means the name of a type instance....so that's a point of confusion for me at least.
I think of identifier mostly in database terms. For example, in the geographic applications I do, there are types CountryId, PostalCodeId, StateId, CountyId, LocalityId, NeighborhoodId, StreetId, StreetNameId, etc, etc. It is very easy to mix them up, so having separate types lets the compiler detect these mixups. That isn't to say a better name can't be found. I just haven't heard one yet that I like better. --Beman