Couple of Questions

[Christopher Browne]

On 24 Sep 2001 14:16:19 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com>  said:
> > a couple of questions...
> >=20
> > guids: while there is the 'gnucash-make-guids' tool, is the algorythm for
> > making these documented?
> 
> No, but the code is freely available. See src/engine/guid.c for the
> details.

... And the algorithm probably _shouldn't_ be indicated as "documented
as cast in stone."

The point of the exercise is for guids to be unique.  That's the property
that you care about.  

Writing a program that depends on their properties beyond uniqueness
can only lead to Evil.
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