Re: Saving and reading rng state from (ascii) file?

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "ST" == Sven N Thommesen <address@hidden> writes:

ST> Perhaps Marcus has a point that I ought to add code to save and
ST> retrieve the random objects using lisp and/or hdf5, but from my
ST> own perspective it is a *feature*, not a bug, that the internals
ST> of the state are kept hidden ;-)

Serialization methods could be written to write the data in an opaque
vector, e.g.  such that the field names weren't named but the types
were kept separate.  The current design does not provide for portable
storage of state, and that is not a feature...

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