2007/7/21, Nis Jørgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Stefan Matthias Aust skrev: > > > > Let's assume you have users who are allowed to assign nick names to > > theirselves and still all thoses nick names must be different. This is > > want I call a random ID. > > > If a user assigns it, it is not random, by any definition of random I > can think of.
From the server's point of view it is random - IMHO - because the server cannot guess it and users don't know the choices of other users. Perhaps there's a better English word, I'd call it "zufällig". > I do see the use case for random unique values - for instance to give > each object a url without making it possible for a visitor to retrieve > all the objects. That would be another use case. Yet another would be to use random IDs to not but a bias on some objects - that is you don't want to reveal whether some object was entered before another object. -- Stefan Matthias Aust // Truth until paradox --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
