From the docs I think it would be acceptable to alias those (one may be more secure, but it doesn't have to be; also it looks like we do try to be as secure as possible already).

A PR adding an alias would be welcome! It could basically be a single line uuid_generate_random: 'uuid_generate' in src/library_uuid.js, unless there is some API difference as well.

Should it be sth like:

uuid_generate_random: function(u) {return this.uuid_generate(u);}

?
Would this. work there?

@vadimkantorov

You wouldn't use this, since these functions will all be top level functions.

But in the simple case where it's just an alias - so it just calls the other function, with the param, and returns the result, as you wrote - then uuid_generate_random: 'uuid_generate' should do exactly what you want, the JS library logic turns such a string into the code you wrote, automatically.

A PR would be great!

I created a PR with this proposed fix, but haven't tested it locally at all :(

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ran into this trying to compile poppler

The PR is open here #12430. We just asked for test to be written. Maybe you want to take a stab at it?