Re: Re: Trouble with 5150UUID-fix

Tim Rowledge <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Colin Putney <[email protected]> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> 
> On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 12:13  PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't seem to me that this is an issue worth spending huge cycles
> > on _right now_ so I'll suggest going with the inclusion of TimeStamp
> > which appears to be a reasonably small and innocuous class.
> 
> Six minutes later, Doug Way wrote a contrasting view:
> 
> > Okay, after poking around with 5150UUID-fix and Time and TimeStamp, it 
> > looks like we can remove the dependency on TimeStamp (as Tim 
> > suggested) and keep the same behavior by simply replacing "TimeStamp 
> > current asSeconds" with "Time totalSeconds" in 
> > UUIDGenerator>>makeSeed.  So, we should probably just do that.
> 
> I'd have to agree with Doug here, for two reasons:
If Time totalSeconds is considered to be an adequate value for this
purpose then most definitely let's do it that way.

tim
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