[plt-scheme] UUID Question

From: Dave Herman (dherman at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 16 10:50:39 EST 2009

#:legacy ?

Sam TH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Doug Williams
> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> 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 "www.widgets.com"
>> #:force #t). How does that look?
> 
> Hmm.  What is being "forced" here?  I would think something like
> #:rfc4122 or #:strict would be more evocative.
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Sam TH <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Doug Williams
>>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> (make-uuid-3 namespace-DNS "www.widgets.com") = #<uuid
>>>> 3d813cbb-47fb-32ba-91df-831e1593ac29>
>>>> (make-uuid-3 namespace-DNS "www.widgets.com" #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
>>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>>
> 
> 
> 



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