I wrote:
> Hmm... perhaps the name generated by 18!:3'' should
> be modeled something like:

On reflection, that was probably a bad idea.

The problem is that this violates the guarantee that
object references never get re-used.

A better approach would probably be to change the
underlying data type for the counter to float
(C's double) for 32 bit platforms.  This should
result in 9e15 distinct object ids -- and 
take several thousand years for current 32
bit machines to exhaust.

-- 
Raul

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