Re: A UUID function for web developers

I don't understand the logic of people who insist every single web programmer should inevitably go hunting for a sound UUID generator when it is already there in everyone's damn system. Also, designing an UUID implementation that is meant to be limited to one's own "domain" is both redundant and short sighted; UUID's by definition should never collide, and you should not assume your UUID's will never be mixed with UUID's generated elsewhere. 

The whole point of UUID's is that they are unique, and it gives developers great relief knowing someone had the foresight to come up with such an entity, until oops! You find out somehow, maybe the master plan of web developer saboteurs, access to the UUID generator function was not provided. I'm not even going to ask for a reason, there is no reason, at least no good reason.