Re: p:label-elements builtin

On 9/6/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> / Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
> | Um.  Having one implementation where you can rely on that doesn't seem
> | very useful: people will write pipelines that work in your
> | implementation and then find they don't work in others.  It's like
> | relying on argument evaluation order, or how a++ + a++ comes out in a
> | given C compiler.  If there's a need for non-duplication between
> | documents it should either be required or there should be a switch to
> | guarantee it.
>
> So what do folks think? Sequential numbers, some guarantee of global
> uniqueness, or implementation defined?

I already proposed to split the problem in two parts (with two
different component):
* generation
* uniqueness checking

And for the generation I say : implementation defined,
the other solution is a 'mode' option that have at least decimal,
hexadecimal, base64 and random

Mohamed
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