From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Back to emacsclient/server
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:38:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d58c3ta9.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0610281416m248bce55s22d2eb467fc3dbec@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat\, 28 Oct 2006 23\:16\:29 +0200")
"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On 10/28/06, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Let's make (random 'random) generate a new seed, use it, then restore
>> the old one, so that it has no effect on the sequence. This is a much
>> smaller change than adding a means to read and set the random seed.
> But I think that's all unnecessary right now. As others have pointed
> out, several packages already do initialize the random seed for
> trivial reasons; I see no harm in doing the same in server.el. If your
> proposal (or any variant) is ever implemented, fixing server.el is a
> one-line change.
I agree. I see no harm in doing (random t) in server.el.
If someone really want repeatable output from random, we _do_ need
at way to set the seed, e.g. (random &optional n seed)
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 14:14 Back to emacsclient/server Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-23 14:54 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-23 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-23 21:17 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-23 22:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-23 16:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-23 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-24 0:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-24 4:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-24 15:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-24 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-24 19:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-24 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-25 16:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-25 11:46 ` Michael Olson
2006-10-25 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-23 21:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-23 23:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-24 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-24 15:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-24 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-24 19:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-10-23 16:26 ` Jan D.
2006-10-23 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-23 20:35 ` Jan Djärv
2006-10-23 21:20 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-23 21:59 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-24 5:06 ` Jan Djärv
2006-10-24 8:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-24 13:27 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-23 21:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-24 5:08 ` Jan Djärv
2006-10-24 7:32 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-23 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-23 21:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-24 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-24 8:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-27 0:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-27 11:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-27 12:21 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-27 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-27 13:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-27 13:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-27 13:50 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2006-10-27 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-27 15:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-28 18:13 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-30 1:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-31 0:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-28 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-28 21:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-28 23:38 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2006-10-30 13:33 ` Richard Stallman
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2006-10-28 0:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
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