From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2000-01-08T13:24:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01068] Re: rand() / drand48()

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01063] Re: rand() / drand48()"
    on 00/01/08, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp> writes:

>  * Perl seems to give up this behavior.  Does Ruby really need this
>    behavoir?

No.  Well, I've thought again, then I can accept the behavoir like
Perl's rand now because we have a Kernel function srand. 

But such behavoir makes people to misunderstand that a series of the
first rand value makes a random sequences as good as a rand sequence
is.

thanks

-- gotoken