In case you want to know why is Universally unique identifier incredibly useful for you click on that link. UUID and GUID mean the same “thing”.
In case you need little resilient modern C++ compile-time GUID read on.
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Update 2020 Apr
How it all started
UTF-8 as we know it today started with (now defunct) OS called “Plan 9“. All is behind that link. UTF-8 is one of the offspring technologies of that OS. Here is the fascinating PDF from 1992 January: UTF-8-Plan9-paper
The other day, a C++ student approached me on-line, while he researched some tiny framework of mine. In his own words he”bumped into this problem”. For some reason, he still uses Visual Studio 2017 IDE. Annoyingly he had an image, not a source code, to prove the problem. Sigh.
One of those snippets you just copy-paste from SO? Can I please explain to you a few basics before your copy-paste this one? Let’s suppose you have developed for C++17.
As I am also claiming since ages ago, inheritance as a program composition method is evil. There is no reason to use class inheritance. And I am not the inventor of this advice.
What more can we say? Ah yes, please read this little text first. Immediately. Then come back here.