Re: cvs: php4 / NEWS

From: Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 23:08:48 +0000
Subject: Re: cvs: php4 / NEWS
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >> Was this really necessary? Why couldn't you just write >> a new function: random() ? And add a ini-option for >> the mt_* stuff ... > >WHOA!!! > >I'm not going to discuss this anymore, sorry... I asked dozens of times for >comments, but didn't get any. Isn't it a bit late to question it now? I was waiting for you to tell that now the branch works and I could test it and say 'good, this works you can merge'. I'm sure everybody else waited for same. >Though you bring me to an idea... indeed, why not call the new functions >random() and random_set() (was: srand), then no BC problems... Leave the old functions as they are and create new function 'random()' which does not need srand(). So please revert this commit. --Jani

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