Review: std.uuid

[Jonas Drewsen]

On Sunday, 10 June 2012 at 11:00:51 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:03:15 +0200
> schrieb "Jonas Drewsen" <jdrewsen at nospam.com>:
>
>> When looking at the associated RFC I noticed that a UUID can 
>> contain e.g. timestap, clock, node fields. What about 
>> providing properties that could return these fields?
>
> Why would you need those? A UUID only needs to be unique, which 
> is
> guaranteed by those node, timestamp and clock fields. But the 
> exact
> value of node, timestamp, clock is never important, as long as 
> it's
> unique. std.uuid can't create version 1&2 uuids so we never 
> have to set
> these fields either.

I do not know actually. If you believe that they are not usable 
anyway then please ignore my suggestion.

>> It would also be nice to have an index in the top of the page 
>> like std.algorithm has.
>
> OK, I'll have a look at that.

Great

/Jonas