= The `GenUUID` structure
:Author: John Reppy
:Date: {release-date}
:stem: latexmath
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:VERSION: {smlnj-version}

The `GenUUID` structure implements a generator for random
(Variant 1, Type 4) UUIDs.  The random number generator
is seeded by the current time.

== Synopsis

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structure GenUUID
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== Interface

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val new : unit -> UUID.t
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== Description

`[.kw]#val# new : unit \-> UUID.t`::
  `new ()` generates a new Variant 1, Type 4 UUID.

== See Also

xref:str-UUID.adoc[`UUID`],
xref:uuid-lib.adoc[__The UUID Library__]
