gensym(+Base,
-Unique)Generate <Base>1, <Base>2,
etc atoms on each subsequent call. Note that there is nothing that
prevents other parts of the application to‘invent’the same
identifier. The predicate
gensym/2 is thread-safe
in the sense that two threads generating identifiers from the same Base
will never generate the same identifier.
- See also
- uuid/1, term_hash/2, variant_sha1/2
may be used to generate various unique or content-based identifiers
safely.