Martin Baxter <mblivecode@...> writes: > > Was looking at the uuid command. > > Type 4 is straightforward enough. > > Types 3 and 5 have me baffled though. Does anyone know what those types > are used for? I can't even guess, nor have my web searches led me to any > information about their usage.
Here's my take on uuid types 3 and 5: 1. Don't bother with type 3 - it's been deprecated in favor of type 5. See RFC 4122 for more details. 2. Both these types are for generating uuids that are limited to a specific namespace in scope, and thus you can feed the namespace as an argument and guarantee that uuids generated at the same time *within the same namespace* will be identical. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode