Re: rand(), mt_rand() and limits
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:08:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: rand(), mt_rand() and limits | ||
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Hey Stas,
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 01:03, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Having new, better API is fine. Breaking existing working code because
> new, better API is possible, is not fine.
The manual explicitly guarantees that code should not rely on the random number generator being
predictable.
If people want their existing code to continue to work, we could of course allow this new API to
support the C stdlib rand() as an algorithm for BC reasons. But such code was never supposed to work
in this first place.
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Andrea Faulds
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