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

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 07:11 PM 6/13/00, you wrote:
> >>>>> "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...

No disagreement there.

-s


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