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Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?
From: |
Mike Gran |
Subject: |
Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0? |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:06:36 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
>> (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.
Are you suggesting that you'll break the API in the hope that when people's
code stops working, they'll reread the manual and notice that
random-state-from-platform exists?
It seems a rather unfriendly way to accomplish that task.
Regards,
Mike
- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, (continued)
- Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?, David Kastrup, 2012/01/20
- 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
- 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 <=
- 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