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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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-28 23:38 UTC|newest]

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
     [not found] ` <f7ccd24b0610271000p16dda672mb146860725d47e00@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <45426C6B.10401@student.lu.se>
     [not found]     ` <f7ccd24b0610271400x343c7197jbd6b775f49834924@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <454276CB.9000002@student.lu.se>
     [not found]         ` <f7ccd24b0610271419p51bf429fjf5fb548e613cd950@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <45427A24.8020107@student.lu.se>
     [not found]             ` <f7ccd24b0610271438r64539e94j6b17c251b213a047@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <45427F8E.5040507@student.lu.se>
     [not found]                 ` <f7ccd24b0610271700v472f9c53v43017fce05e761e9@mail.gmail.com>
2006-10-28  0:24                   ` Juanma Barranquero

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