That was my first choice - without the ? at the end, of course. Thus the "more descriptive ones seem somewhat annoying" comment. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Sam TH <<a href="mailto:samth@ccs.neu.edu">samth@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Doug Williams > <<a href="mailto:m.douglas.williams@gmail.com">m.douglas.williams@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> I thought about it. I named the boolean force? and would likely use the >> keyword #::force, since longer, more descriptive ones seem somewhat >> annoying. That would give (make-uuid-3 namespace-DNS "<a href="http://www.widgets.com" target="_blank">www.widgets.com</a>" >> #:force #t). How does that look? > > Hmm. What is being "forced" here? I would think something like > #:rfc4122 or #:strict would be more evocative. </div>I would probably go with #:buggy-as-in-the-main-text-but-not-in-the-note-at-the-end? :) Robby <div><div></div><div class="h5"> >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Sam TH <<a href="mailto:samth@ccs.neu.edu">samth@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Doug Williams >>> <<a href="mailto:m.douglas.williams@gmail.com">m.douglas.williams@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >>> > >>> > ... >>> > (make-uuid-3 namespace-DNS "<a href="http://www.widgets.com" target="_blank">www.widgets.com</a>") = #<uuid >>> > 3d813cbb-47fb-32ba-91df-831e1593ac29> >>> > (make-uuid-3 namespace-DNS "<a href="http://www.widgets.com" target="_blank">www.widgets.com</a>" #t) = #<uuid >>> > e902893a-9d22-3c7e-a7b8-d6e313b71d9f> >>> > ... >>> >>> I think it would be helpful to use an optional keyword argument here, >>> rather than just an optional boolean. >>> >>> -- >>> sam th >>> <a href="mailto:samth@ccs.neu.edu">samth@ccs.neu.edu</a> >> >> > > > > -- > sam th > <a href="mailto:samth@ccs.neu.edu">samth@ccs.neu.edu</a> > </div></div></blockquote></div>