JSLint reports unexpected use of '&' and '|' — I'd like to clean this

Question

I\'m trying to get my Javascript code 100% JSLint clean.

I\'ve got some JS code that I\'ve lifted from elsewhere to create a UUID. That code has the following line:

Answer 1

Did you give it the bitwise option? That option warns on all uses of bitwise operations, as they tend to be inefficient in Javascript (the native floats need to be converted to ints for the bitwise operation, and then converted back)