Review: std.uuid

[Dmitry Olshansky]

The review process stalled long enough, let's kick start it with a small 
yet a valuable module that was there for quite some time.

std.uuid by Johannes Pfau is a rehash of it's C++ twin from well known 
Boost library.

The review cycle takes the usual 2 weeks starting today 9th June, ending 
at 23 June 00:00 UTC followed by a one week vote process ending at 30 June.

The module gives the following description:
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This is a port of boost.uuid from the boost project with some minor
additions and API changes for a more D-like API. A UUID, or Universally
unique identifier, is intended to uniquely identify information in a
distributed environment without significant central coordination. It
can be used to tag objects with very short lifetimes, or to reliably
identify very persistent objects across a network. UUIDs have many
applications. [...]
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Links & Info

Code: https://github.com/jpf91/phobos/blob/std.uuid/std/uuid.d
API-Docs: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24218791/d/src/uuid.html

Additional note from Johannes:

The code and documentation for shaUUID has already been written,
but until phobos has support for SHA1, that can't be included. The code
is currently commented out in the source file (it's well tested
with some 3rd party SHA1 code), but the documentation for those
functions is included in the API-docs. I think those functions should
be reviewed as well, so that it's possible to add them to phobos with a
simple pull request at a later date.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky