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Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?
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Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0? |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:55:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat 21 Jan 2012 00:46, Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
> (seed->random-state (current-time)) seems to be a common idiom that
> you would end up breaking.
This is a common idiom that is worth deprecating. Mark's new functions
that seed the random state from /dev/urandom are much better.
So no, no plans to break anything -- but we should help these people
write better programs.
Regards,
Andy
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- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, Andy Wingo, 2012/01/20
- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, Mike Gran, 2012/01/20
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- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, Mike Gran, 2012/01/23
- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, Andy Wingo, 2012/01/23
- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, Mike Gran, 2012/01/24
- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, Andy Wingo, 2012/01/24