From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2009-02-01T02:04:37+09:00
Subject: Re: global generator of unique symbols


On Jan 31, 2009, at 4:15 AM, Thomas Hafner wrote:
> is there a global generator of unique symbols? See article
> <r98456-qlb.ln1@faun.hafner.nl.eu.org> why that can be needed. There I
> have defined myself a generator, but that's no real solution: if
> software is going to be put together from different libraries, only
> one common generator should be used by all software parts to prevent
> symbol clash.

Perhaps generating a UUID and converting it to a symbol would work for  
you?

<http://github.com/assaf/uuid/tree/master>

uuid = UUID.new
sym = uuid.generate(:compact).to_sym

UUIDs are discussed in RFC 4122: <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt>


Gary Wright