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Formalize ID Format #42
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I would like to upvote this suggestion to save our future selves a lot of headache. |
I recommend NOT using numbers for ids at ALL. Instead, use short names. Numbers have no intrinsic meaning, and using number ranges will mess up everything if a category overflows. Using simple names makes everything MUCH MUCH easier to follow. E.g., instead of |
Also perfectly acceptable so long as we don't have to recategorize these if we need to add or remove them. |
@david-a-wheeler and @SecurityCRob have agreed to suggest some alternative formats. |
A suggestion from @TheFoxAtWork is to consider incorporating the category into the ID.
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