Can a script preempt substack name conflicts?

[Richard Gaskin]

David Epstein wrote:

 > The case I am contemplating would involve a user creating new
 > substacks to hold content.  While I can make sure each substack
 > created by my program gets a unique name, if a file created on
 > one machine is moved to another machine there is some chance of
 > a conflict (reduced but not absolutely eliminated if I went to
 > great lengths, like embedding in each substack's name "the
 > ticks" at creation time).

See the UUID function in the Dictionary.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems