uuid.Parse allows invalid UUID's about uuid HOT 2 CLOSED

This is a known "feature" and has been discussed before. Fixing this could very well break existing code. I actually don't see any issue with the first and third examples. The current code also can parse [6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8], <6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8>, (6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8), '6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8' all of which I have no particular problem with. I agree that the seocnd example does not return an error is unfortunate. In any event, the time for this change has long since passed.

If validating, rather than just parsing, strings as UUIDs I could imagine a function like:

func Validate(s string) (uuid, error) {
    if len(s) == 36 + 2 { 
      // do some checks
    }
    return Parse(s)
}

from uuid.

This is a duplicate of issue #60

from uuid.