Re: [RFC] RNG fixes

Hi! > I haven't been following this thread, just jumping in to comment on this > point. My suggestion to deprecate rand() was motivated by the fact that > rand() produces extremely low quality random numbers on Windows, while at Why not fix it then? > the same time having the name people are most likely to try first if they > want to have a random number. It's a bad state of things if there's a > rand() and an mt_rand() function and the latter is preferable in *all* > situations, while the former is more likely to be used. However, this > concern is completely alleviated by aliasing rand() to mt_rand(). If we do Exactly, one of the ways. If mt_rand for some (unknown to me) reason is not good enough, I'm sure we can find a better one. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com