From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for SRFI 27 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:13 +0200 Message-ID: <877hjrudo6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eie1w5nv.fsf@delenn.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281884256 17425 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2010 14:57:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:57:36 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 15 16:57:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkeeT-0008UX-FV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkeeS-00028V-UE for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42685 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OkeeK-00028O-8u for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkeeI-00049d-Uk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkeeI-00049F-PG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkeeG-0008LQ-Ti for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:20 +0200 Original-Received: from yoda.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:20 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by yoda.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 Thermidor an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g+Cjw3XbQKQmsA8zfQzI9IIjY+A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10767 Archived-At: Hello! Andreas Rottmann writes: > Attached is my take on adding SRFI 27 "Sources of Random Bits". Nice! Looks good to me. Could you also add a node to doc/ref/srfi-modules.texi? > +;; These tests are commented out since it /could/ happen that > +;; `random-source-randomize!' (or `random-source-pseudo-randomize!') puts the > +;; RNG into a state where it generates the same number as before. If you run > +;; them manually, they should have a very high chance of passing, though. Perhaps you could run them anyway and throw 'unresolved when they appear to fail? The guardian tests do that when it’s impossible to determine whether it’s a failure or whether some unrelated phenomenon prevented the test to pass. Thanks, Ludo’.