On Thursday, 13 March 2025 05:01:17 Pacific Daylight Time Frederick Virchanza
Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> I realise that the initialism UUID started out as 'Universally Unique
> Identifier", with versions 1, 2, 3 and so forth. But nowadays I think
> it's reasonable to use UUID as a synonym for a 128-Bit random number.
> So I think it would be reasonable to have a function called
> "std::uuid" which returns an implementation-defined type which could
> be either __uint128_t or std::array< char unsigned, 128u / CHAR_BIT >.
>
> Do you think this belongs in the C++ standard library?

128-bit integer type? Yes, should be coming with C's _BitInt(N).

UUID type? Yes

Generation of UUID using a random device? Yes.

Constexpr randomness? No.

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