[#11439] comments needed for Random class — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>

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15 messages 2007/06/12

[#11450] Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal) — David Flanagan <david@...>

This is a late response to the very long thread that started back in

17 messages 2007/06/13

[#11482] Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Does this look like a bug to anyone else?

10 messages 2007/06/16

[#11505] Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>

1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three months

20 messages 2007/06/20
[#11512] Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...> 2007/06/20

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

[#11543] Re: Apple reportedly to ship with ruby 1.8.6-p36 unless informed what to patch — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

10 messages 2007/06/27

Re: comments needed for Random class

From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-06-16 03:43:31 UTC
List: ruby-core #11473
NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
> 1. Random#rand(range): it is proposed in ruby-dev, too.  I dropped it
> from my previous proposal because begin/last of a Range can be a float
> number.  I couldn't imagine what Random#range(Range.new(1.1, 3.1))
> should return.

a float in the range 1.1 <= n < 3.1, same as 1.1+rand*(3.1-1.1)
it seems like the obvious behavior to me; is there some special reason 
why this shouldn't be done?

> As the result, a proposal is as follows for now:

May I ask what would be the method signature for new/initialize?
Thank you.

Daniel

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