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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>,
	9103@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9103: 23.3.50; random* from cl does not support the whole range of integers
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:58:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=Pu5_+GRtbapwmjiovbcJEpjN_0iTu7_iX72JHXVUBzA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31uvn22an.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:20:00 +0200")

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> Glenn Morris wrote:
>>
>>> Why does random* even need to exist? What can it do that plain random
>>> cannot?
>>
>> ...non-integer results, it seems.

(That's `cl-random' these days.)

> and then make it into a floating point if it floats?

The Common Lisp version of `random' supports float and integer values
depending on what type its argument has.  I guess that's what
`cl-random' is based on.

I'm not sure if we can change `random' to do the same.  But if there is
a need for random floating point numbers, it does seem unfortunate that
we only have that functionality in CL-Lib.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-22 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-17  4:03 bug#9103: 23.3.50; random* from cl does not support the whole range of integers Leo
2011-07-18 21:56 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-18 21:58   ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-19  1:21     ` Leo
2011-07-19  1:28       ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-11  3:20     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11  7:44       ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-22 15:58       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-11-19  5:19 ` Stefan Kangas

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