On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:47:23AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed: > >Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway? Who cares > >if your test eats up some values; their only purpose should be to ensure > >uniqueness. > Contiguity becomes important when you're doing things like generating > invoice numbers.
I've been told that before, but I've never understood why. On the rare occasions when I generate invoices, I ensure uniqueness by making the invoice number something like YYYYMMDDN. -- David Cantrell | Reprobate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Perl may be the best solution for processing a text file, but asking a group of Perl Mongers clearly isn't -- aef, in #london.pm
