From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>,
"guile-devel@gnu.org" <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:06:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327323996.38012.YahooMailNeo@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739b6rbdm.fsf@pobox.com>
> From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
>> (seed->random-state (current-time)) seems to be a common idiom that
>> you would end up breaking.
>
>This is a common idiom that is worth deprecating. Mark's new functions
>that seed the random state from /dev/urandom are much better.
Are you suggesting that you'll break the API in the hope that when people's
code stops working, they'll reread the manual and notice that
random-state-from-platform exists?
It seems a rather unfriendly way to accomplish that task.
Regards,
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 3:28 Improve `seed->random-state' in stable-2.0? Mark H Weaver
2012-01-20 8:37 ` David Kastrup
2012-01-20 14:54 ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-20 18:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-20 20:35 ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-20 22:45 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-21 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2012-01-21 8:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-23 9:52 ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-20 23:46 ` Mike Gran
2012-01-23 9:55 ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-23 13:06 ` Mike Gran [this message]
2012-01-23 14:06 ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-24 6:08 ` Mike Gran
2012-01-24 9:56 ` Andy Wingo
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