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)
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