The "names" of the sandwiches have to be as few characters as possible, so they can fit on the small cash register.

The "names" of the sandwiches have 'human friendly' so the clerks can get a clue of the sandwiches they represent, with as little 'rote memorization' as possible.

These seem (to me) to be conflicting requirements? Would it not be better to use some kind of compact format for the sandwich "configuration", which could then be "expanded" into the full human readable/digestable name of the sandwich? I assume it needs to be small because it needs to fit in a database ("small cash register") and it is obvious why you want to make it human readable. But it is not obvious to me why they both have to be the same thing.

Could you possibly expand upon your reasoning for this? It might help to understand why you made this design decision.

-stvn

In reply to Re: How do you name the possibilities? by stvn
in thread How do you name the possibilities? by dimar

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