Re: [PHP6] Merging rand and mt_rand()
| From: | Rouven Weßling | Date: | Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:40:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP6] Merging rand and mt_rand() | ||
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On 24.02.2014, at 21:02, Marc Bennewitz <php@marc-bennewitz.de> wrote:
> Each RNG has pros and cons so why only support one?
Simple. Because PHP has too many damn ways to do one and the same thing. And it's making the
platform harder to use.
Now, I'm genuinely curios what advantages does our rand() implementation have over mt_rand()
that I'm missing? Because that might be a good argument to drop this whole proposal.
Best regards
Rouven