[Issue 12100] __GENTYPE to generate ever different types

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100

--- Comment #9 from monarchdodra at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Andrej Mitrovic from comment #7)
> Hmm.. I don't know about that. Really all I wanted was:
> 
> auto a = __uniqueID;  // "asdf01"
> auto b = __uniqueID;  // "asdf02"
> 
> It's just something that's incremented internally, but this can only be done
> during that compilation run. I'm not sure whether this would cause any
> problems.
> 
> DMD already has something like this that it uses internally, but at runtime
> (of the DMD executable), Lexer::uniqueId.

Yeah, but I'm saying that:

//----
module mod_a;

immutable a = __uniqueID;  // "asdf01"
//----
module mod_b;

immutable b = __uniqueID;  // "asdf??"
//----
module main;

import mod_a, mod_d;
static assert(a != b);
//----

dmd -c mod_a.d
dmd -c mod_b.d
dmd mod_d.o mod_b.o main.d

Then a "simple" increment scheme won't work, since you'd have reset between two
runs, and have created a duplicate.

But I guess at this point, we agree on the final functionality. The rest is
implementation detail.

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