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    CompSci: GUIDs are not strings

    November 3, 2017 less than 1 minute read

    GUIDs are not strings. They are numbers. We render them as strings for readability. We should not process them as strings. We should not pass them around as strings. The string representation of a GUID should not be relevant to a program.

    Via The Daily WTF.

    Tags: computer-science, til

    Categories: til

    Updated: May 13, 2025

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