From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for SRFI 27 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:15:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87eie1w5nv.fsf@delenn.lan> <877hjrudo6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283016600 23197 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2010 17:30:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Rottmann Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 28 19:29:59 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 1OpPE5-0006vp-0G for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:29:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpPE4-0003ca-D8 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59020 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpPDj-0003XS-6Z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:29:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpOwj-0002Jv-9G for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:57154 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpOwj-0002Jq-3y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:12:01 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F972D1998; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:12:01 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=SSdyVjYNGa64 aLIIqoKf4ORKWrs=; b=yhBGujTlCTfH6X8gW4a+CtxmQTO1h5m2jirNYxvM8fbR +7dFypiXq9L9oTxIZPgmgVoqgSgt3gxUVQ6lxjpfHR0CMZkv8j5Ogsjx0da67pnB cPPOOJuH+5Ko5Fuj4apSdqmigtPojOyT2+ZV971N8te9+NaCmAdn4uCnlPLliXo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=kt0z5B +hGRFKgrWvBKH2EgYa7Qk6kI3RUnxfPXBWlE7Z79wBLU2jCoP+4DKbfeWk7fj46e /38FZ9cxJ2Cdf4eB0tLShOVsFYV/QOV9r2d/E7siSOQvKjZJxHaeFlbWMOzAg4xx jssFpP/zipjMBgMqF3+WkIr1voyaN8v6DV5pA= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF836D1997; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:11:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [75.28.21.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A1E2D1996; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:11:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877hjrudo6.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 5E9553A8-B2C7-11DF-9BB5-030CEE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:10800 Archived-At: On Sun 15 Aug 2010 07:57, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > 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? 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!') pu= ts the >> +;; RNG into a state where it generates the same number as before. If yo= u run >> +;; them manually, they should have a very high chance of passing, thoug= h. > > Perhaps you could run them anyway and throw 'unresolved when they appear > to fail? The guardian tests do that when it=E2=80=99s impossible to dete= rmine > whether it=E2=80=99s a failure or whether some unrelated phenomenon preve= nted > the test to pass. Agreed. Cheers, Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/