From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: References: <0i1uxnb69f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11672"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Glenn Morris , Leo , 9103@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 22 17:59:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mdwwo-0002pf-Ft for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:59:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42870 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdwwn-0003Rr-HE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdwwg-0003Rh-K7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:50348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdwwg-00008L-8m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mdwwg-0005OP-7K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:59:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:59:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9103 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 9103-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9103.163491831020680 (code B ref 9103); Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9103) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Oct 2021 15:58:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33661 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mdww9-0005NU-TV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:58:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf1-f182.google.com ([209.85.210.182]:46690) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mdww2-0005N2-TB for 9103@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:58:27 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf1-f182.google.com with SMTP id x66so3993404pfx.13 for <9103@debbugs.gnu.org>; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:58:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :mime-version:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=kvER4h9pbRVQzD1RjiJLVhAtxQAk/s6na+AQemNrIXs=; b=wAz+EFeluxylm9xj7++E6wEpc64iY5fRHf86as6XwjNIyEH3iab1Yw7c5i8ATcGmsZ JvZ67ZTV89JjLYougNrGk44vxDUOv8pc0Nbrff7Ixh/5EHpadHuFdwl7gJewUZx91e69 2y+Vztf6K3Ht1JoZxN4ieOEc93jMZDnOEHbGv0u0erDDvvTXHjllavH3LUK/AZKR2af0 4S0ocRgDjx0evLfGztkaKXL3MXk1UiSlNUU+K2LHVtJz3gTXVWGcfl4cW1BnWf3nbEt7 oDt42FlP3pflt3Bw1IFWiJz+/XfI84gzJ/WT7IIfWa3bhFxtAli0M2kPI00AEoaBs3lK x1NQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532HN5O/8tenAZ98v8sSBFDDEks4T1hqsaMAK//0Ivsjvax013Jw v/C2k5jSsLTlgEb8Tori6tXKFvunCO/b4jkzSGc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJz2vQygskX8xVzofdRURdXtmcsrWjNNXo+qTb67GyK+wpw8OE4dn7YtF4VyajTKrXUMXbfPdpwUnzz3KWcgbvU= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6a00:1950:b0:44d:9402:3396 with SMTP id s16-20020a056a00195000b0044d94023396mr861617pfk.70.1634918295073; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:58:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:20:00 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:217893 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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.