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Re: random doesn't feel very random


From: joakim
Subject: Re: random doesn't feel very random
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:13:24 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 08/31/2012 12:43 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Alright, then let's make the change,
>
> I committed something to do that, in trunk bzr 109833 and
> 109834.
>
> One thing that wasn't discussed was how to set the
> seed, for people who want to do debugging and who want
> repeatable random sequences.  Trunk bzr 109833 does that by letting
> one execute (random "STRING"), where the contents of the string
> determine the seed.  If this doesn't seem to be a good idea,
> I'll volunteer to rip it out, or change it, or whatever.

I would like this interface very much!
-- 
Joakim Verona



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