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Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?


From: 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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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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