Re: Continuing discussion of oaf ...

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com> writes:

> I still think including the UUID component is necessary to guarantee
> global uniqueness in a fully decentralized way. DNS-style namespace
> allocation doesn't really work; it has not worked well for Java. So I
> am still against making it optional.
> 
> I don't think being easy to type is a requirement; #defines should be
> used anyway to avoid typos, the bane of magic string constants. And
> the current scheme is actually very easy to check. Two different UUIDs
> are very easy to compare by eye because on average half the bits will
> be different, meaning nearly every digit will be different. So it's
> surprisingly easy to compare for equality by eye.

Hmm, yes. Good point.

I start to agree with you that we really shouldn't make them optional.

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