From: joakim@verona.se
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: random doesn't feel very random
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:13:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33932808b.fsf@chopper.vpn.verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5041626B.6080608@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:18:35 -0700")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 08/31/2012 12:43 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Alright, then let's make the change,
>
> I committed something to do that, in trunk bzr 109833 and
> 109834.
>
> One thing that wasn't discussed was how to set the
> seed, for people who want to do debugging and who want
> repeatable random sequences. Trunk bzr 109833 does that by letting
> one execute (random "STRING"), where the contents of the string
> determine the seed. If this doesn't seem to be a good idea,
> I'll volunteer to rip it out, or change it, or whatever.
I would like this interface very much!
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-01 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-24 5:47 random doesn't feel very random Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24 6:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-08-24 17:19 ` random doesn't feel very random, random doesn't feel very random, " Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24 18:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-25 7:46 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24 6:30 ` Leo
2012-08-24 22:48 ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-24 22:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-25 20:55 ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-25 23:25 ` Leo
2012-08-26 13:12 ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-26 14:24 ` Achim Gratz
2012-08-26 23:22 ` Leo
2012-08-27 0:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-27 6:31 ` Simon Leinen
2012-08-27 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-27 4:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-31 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-31 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-31 15:23 ` chad
2012-08-31 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-31 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-01 1:18 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-01 7:19 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-01 13:19 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04 19:19 ` Nix
2012-09-04 20:07 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04 20:11 ` Nix
2012-09-02 12:27 ` Jason Rumney
2012-09-02 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-01 7:22 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-09-01 11:13 ` joakim [this message]
2012-08-31 23:04 ` Leo
2012-08-27 5:17 ` Achim Gratz
2012-08-31 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-31 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-31 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-26 9:06 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24 7:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-24 9:10 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-24 17:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-24 12:45 ` OT: appropriateness of "random" for playlist generation (was: random doesn't feel very random) Jeremiah Dodds
2012-08-24 14:37 ` random doesn't feel very random Drew Adams
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