UUID (Universally Unique Identifier)


The uuid vocabulary is used to generate UUIDs. The below words can be used to generate version 1, 3, 4, and 5 UUIDs as specified in RFC 4122 and version 6, 7, and 8 UUIDs as specified in RFC 9562.

If all you want is a unique ID, you should probably call uuid1 or uuid4.

uuid1 ( -- string )

uuid3 ( namespace name -- string )

uuid4 ( -- string )

uuid5 ( namespace name -- string )

uuid6 ( -- string )

uuid7 ( -- string )

uuid8 ( a b c -- string )