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To be fair, you probably needed to know that anyway? Or else you would've just passed invalid data into functions.

I cannot recall ever passing an invalid UUID (or long id) into a function due to statically-knowable circumstances.

The point is that you might pass a semantically invalid user ID. Not that you might pass an invalid UUID.

I generally agree that it's easy to over-do, but can be great if you have a terse, dense, clear language/framework/docs, so you can instantly learn about UserID.

More specifically, if all entities have a GUID, it's not impossible to accidentally map entity A ID to entity B ID accidentally, especially when working with relationships. Moving the issue to the compiler is nicer than the query returning 0 results and the developer staring endlessly for the subtle issue.

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