Re: [Scheme-reports] Are generated toplevel definitions secret? Perry E. Metzger 07 Nov 2011 18:39 UTC

Isn't all of this precisely why de Brujin indexes were invented?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index

Perry

On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:02:07 +0100 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon 07 Nov 2011 16:17, Jim Rees <jimreesma@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I just use lots of randomness in my generated names.   Collisions
> > will happen, but only once every trillion years or so.
>
> That's fine also.  However I wanted to be able to recompile the same
> file and get the same names.  It would be nice to be able to edit
> the file in some number of prescribed ways and also get the same
> names. Currently, deriving the name from the definition form gives
> me the latter, though at some cost (see original mail).
>
> Andy

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com

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