Re: [Fwd: Re: terminology for purple numbers]

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@sun.com>]

Lee Iverson wrote:
> 
> >
> >The other identifier we should probably figure out F2F, as
> >I'm unclear on what we are even calling the *idea* (structure,
> >or what?). But remember, these are really only one or two
> >character mnemonics and should probably be acronyms for things
> >that are actually being implemented in these tools. I'd prefer
> >that they contain "id" since they actually are IDs. Literally.
> 
> I'm assuming you're referring to the A1B2 identifiers here.
> What they are is a *very* shorthand description of a path, so how
> about "pth" or "pid"?    (01)

I'd suggested 'sid' for 'structure identifier' but I like 'path
identifier' better, and as I mentioned, since these are identifiers
used as prefixes to ID values, I'd prefer they contain 'id', so I'd
go with 'pid'. I hope nobody begins pronouncing that with a long 'i'.    (02)

Murray    (03)

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