From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2001-11-03T08:44:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24234] Re: inline comments, IDs

Tobias Reif wrote:

> ID: something (digits and word characters or whatever) that's guaranteed
> to be unique for the time the program runs. (random numbers could be
> duplicate)

What about combining (Time.now.to_f * 1000000).to_i and Process.pid?
Including the pid ensures that even if two process start at around the
same time, you get a different pair of numbers.

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