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Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Uuid and header-only support
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-06 12:25:50


Paul A. Bristow wrote:
> I have been following this erudite discussion with interest, but
> ignorance.
>
> Without wishing to add even more entropy, may I suggest that adding more
> options is rarely a bad thing, but it creates an even more bewildering set
> of options for the user (for UUID, I fear as ignorant as I).

That is why I'd like the default generator to do the right thing and doing
the wrong thing to be harder and not be presented as an equivalent
alternative.


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