Re: Object IDs are bad (was: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper)

[Chris.Bitmead@alcatel.com.au (Chris Bitmead uid(x22068))]

ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:

> > In the tree example that you started with, what is wrong with just
> > passing round the whole subtree so that it can be compared with as
> > necessary? Any reasonable implementation will only be passing round a
> > pointer so you lose nothing.
> 
> Because it will compare equal with any other subtree that happens to
> have the same structure, which is not what I want.

So all you have to do is generate a unique name for each node, right?
Just an incremental number perhaps.