* bug#75105: (cl-random -1.0e+INF)
@ 2024-12-25 23:27 Pip Cet via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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From: Pip Cet via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2024-12-25 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 75105, mattiasengdegard, monnier
The current behavior of (cl-random -1.0e+INF) is to return NaN with a
probability of 1.1920928955078125e-07, and -1.0e+INF in the remaining
cases.
There are at least two reasonable things cl-random can return for a
negative argument. cl-random implements both, returning a float with
negative sign or a nonnegative integer.
There are at least two reasonable things cl-random can do in response to
a zero argument. cl-random implements three of them:
(cl-random 0.0) is 0.0
(cl-random -0.0) is -0.0
(cl-random 0) throws an error
While "(while (not (isnan (cl-random -1.0e+INF))))" is an interesting
benchmark, its behavior may be somewhat surprising.
As this behavior has been in place since at least 1993 (when the
function was called random*), users may rely on it, and only the
docstring should be changed.
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