23 Jul
2004
23 Jul
'04
1:37 a.m.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:49:53 +1000 Matt Hurd <matt.hurd@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes it is when you call it a UUID.
Here is an example of a somewhat portable one: http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/Doxygen/Current/html/ace/UUID_8h-source.html
Certainly clumsier than a size_t.
There are many portable versions of creating a UUID, but I would imagine that one would have to be available at compile time to make use of it in templates. I think M$ compilers provide this as a preprocessor extension, but I am not sure about any others.