From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: How to create random characters?
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:32:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ylawh4d.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.242.1071742690.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net> writes:
> I did find if you use Emacs' "random" function, it will always use the
> same seed to generate random numbers. You can use (random t) to use a
> different seed, and get different random sequences every time, but my
> function uses this argument as a limit.
My understanding is that you call (random t) once, eg after Emacs
starts up or when your file is loaded. After this, you can call
(random 42) to obtain numbers in the desired range.
Does it not work that way? I think it's intended to work that way.
If it doesn't, that might be a bug.
Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-18 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-14 9:59 How to create random characters? Brad Collins
2003-12-14 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.53.1071403922.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-15 8:07 ` Joakim Hove
2003-12-15 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-18 9:22 ` Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.242.1071742690.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 10:32 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2003-12-18 17:30 ` Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.280.1071771962.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 18:30 ` Harald Maier
2003-12-18 18:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
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