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**object**

``uuid``
========

Universally unique identifier (UUID) generator using an atom representation.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(uuid(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-02-26

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Extends:**
|    ``public`` :ref:`uuid(atom) <uuid/1>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|     :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::random_node/1`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_max/1`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_nil/1`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_null/1`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_v1/2`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_v1/3`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_v3/3`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_v4/1`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_v5/3`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_v7/1`  :ref:`uuid_protocol/0::uuid_v7/2`  

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Public predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`uuid(Representation) <uuid/1>`, :ref:`cuid2 <cuid2/0>`, :ref:`ksuid <ksuid/0>`, :ref:`ids <ids/0>`, :ref:`nanoid <nanoid/0>`, :ref:`snowflakeid <snowflakeid/0>`, :ref:`ulid <ulid/0>`

