bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions

[Matt Armstrong]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:
>
>> Can a string be turned into a non-negative bignum integer in
>> (simple) elisp?
>
> Does this look reasonable?
>
>     (seq-reduce (lambda (a i) (+ (ash a 8) i))
>                 (secure-hash 'md5 'iv-auto 128 nil t) 0)

Yep, not too bad, thanks.

-- 
matt (sent from an Emacs running the feature/noverlay branch)