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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for SRFI 27
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:15:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37hja4q1o.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hjrudo6.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:13 +0200")

On Sun 15 Aug 2010 07:57, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello!
>
> Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> 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?

Yes, looks quite good to me!

Just a friendly ping to write some docs :)

>> +;; 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.

Agreed.

Cheers,

Andy
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-28 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-14 15:55 [PATCH] Support for SRFI 27 Andreas Rottmann
2010-08-15 14:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-08-28 17:15   ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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