Re: TNamed() without a name

Dear Axel,

Axel Naumann wrote:
> I discussed with Fons, it's a pretty common issue. We could put the
> random string generator into TString. Could you suggest a function?

I'm not sure whether we need a random string, I can't think of an application where a unique string wouldn't be sufficient.

I've attached a prototype of a TUniqueString class with a static counter protected by a TMutex. To prevent collisions of strings originating from different ROOT instances, a TUUID is prepended.

(The whole thing could be integrated into TString easily, but I'm not sure, whether it would a problem if TString depended on TMutex.)

What do you think?

Funnily, the implementation crashes CINT (ROOT 5.26/00b) when running as a script, but works well when running compiled. (I haven't tested against the trunk.)

Cheers!

Thiemo

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