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Comment by WolfeReader

2 years ago

"Connection string" already means something else. I'm partial to "Identifier", myself.

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msm_  2 years ago

But identifier already means something else (i'm used to identifiers being unique, constant, and useful for actually identifying someone).

  • WolfeReader  2 years ago

    Good point!

    The former C++ programmer in me wants to call them "user pointers" but that would just confuse people who haven't learned pointers.

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