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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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On Saturday 19 September 2015 21:11:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
> > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that
> > they are human-readable.
> 
> Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable.
> 
> Labels are human *understandable*

Well, it isn't often I can call someone else a pedant, but now's my big chance 
so I'm taking it - pedant!

:-)

Personally, I'd just say that labels are legible and leave it at that.

-- 
Rgds
Peter