long id

[juan_gandhi]

I think I got it where all this bs about passing around numerical ids of entities instead of entity references (maybe lazy) come from. It's like 'error code'. It comes from the ancient c programming, where we just could not allocate a string for a readable piece of text, or for the data that may need some efforts to instantiate or allocate.

In short. It's stupid to pass around "ids" in a program.

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Re: id vs pointer

[sassa-nf.livejournal.com]

1. someone needs to maintain a map for Id to memory address
3. tell me about it