Re: cvs: php4 / php.ini-dist php.ini-recommended

> > +; Default random number generator. Specify here which random number generator > > +; you want to use for the PHP-rand() function. Usually MT (Mersenne Twister, > > +; see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php) > > is the best choice. > > +; It is thread-safe, fast, and, quite important, mod and divide-free. > > +; Possible values are 'system', 'mt' and 'lcg' > > +random_number_generator = mt > > shouldn't the default be the backward compatible one? Yes, and if you would have read my proposal, you would know that this ini-setting is irrelevant for BC-issues. I even doubt wether it'd be such a problem anyway: who wants to use the predicability of rand(), which is always bad anyways? (non-thread safe, unknown by which other functions it is used, and system-dependent). And who does want to use that, uses (1) an undocumented feature, and (2) generally knows what he's doing, and is a bit aware of PHP-internals, and probably knows about this changed when it is in NEWS. I am working of a perspective of a not-so-expert user, who uses rand() for what it says: random numbers. THAT use of it should be as easy as possible, without 'seeding' (WTF, most new users would say?, why is that needed?) > tc Jeroen