You're correct, putting a node ID in the search box subjects it to name clashes as well. Good thing that very few nodes are named 31523. ...and exactly one carrys that ID. There will be times when you simply can't search even by ID. You will always be able to link by ID though. (Just wanted to clarify).

You may also always get to a particular node ID by hand-crafting the URL. This is not terribly user-friendly, but works fine: 

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=xxxx  (where xxx is the 
                                                 actual node id)

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Careful.


Dave

In reply to Re: Re(2): Name clashes in lookup by title by davido
in thread Name clashes in lookup by title by bart

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