Lexicon

Location-Derived Identity

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: lexicon:location-derived-identity

Canonical: Lexicon

A defect in which a record's identity is derived from its location or its subject, so renaming either one breaks it.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Unreceived Invariant and before Whole-Surface Rewrite.

Category

  • Coordination Surfaces

Violates

  • Declared Subject

Linked from

  • Coordination Surfaces