Talk:Identifier
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Move from Name and identifier to Identifier?
Motivation: This article really only discusses identifiers. "Name and identifier" is plain silly.
-- Eelis 02:42, 2005 May 23 (UTC)
- This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 10:35, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
I made the following changes:
- "Language object" was awkward.
- List of example language entities was.. unusual.
- "Token" is more accurate than "lexical unit" (which didn't have an article anyway).
- Description of "label" made very little sense and was probably associated with a specific language.
- Computer languages is more accurate than programming languages (think markup languages).
- We don't need to define "keyword", there's a separate article for that.
- Made the C++ identifier example a bit simpler, we don't need full detail here.
- Opening statement should aim to define. Usage is secondary.
- Usage remark should be as broad as possible: information processing systems.
- Examples of what we can identify in general is impossible. We can identify _anything_ we can model.
- The identifiers in telecommunications and data processing section really didn't add anything to the general definition.
- I've moved the naming conventions section to a new article: naming conventions (programming).
- The "to be merged" section didn't describe identifiers.
- The reference to the federal standard didn't add anything.
-- Eelis 23:34, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
[edit] Merging Object identifier into this article
It was suggested by User:Nichtich to merge Object identifier into this article. I disagree: Even though the object identifier is indeed a type of identifier, it is by itself a key concept of ASN.1 and has well-defined syntax and meaning.
- This justifies an own article, so [don't merge]. Dr. Hok 14:01, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- Don't merge. OIDs are very specific approach to distributed management of unique identifiers which deserve to be discussed in its own article. Gschadow 15:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
