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From: erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Tools for manipulating message catalogs
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Date: 19 Apr 91 05:58:24 GMT
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Kee Hinckley writes:
> Erik M. van der Poel writes:
> > Using numbers for the message ids was a bad idea in the first place. 
> Why?

You're right, there's nothing really wrong with numeric ids. I was
thinking of a certain vendor's implementation, which used the line
number of each message in the source file as its numeric id. Without
proper tools, it is easy to introduce inconsistencies.
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Erik M. van der Poel                                      erik@sra.co.jp
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