[#1026] Is this a bug? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

18 messages 2000/01/03

[#1084] Infinite loop — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

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[#1104] The value of while... — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

24 messages 2000/01/11

[ruby-talk:01073] Re: rand() / drand48()

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-01-08 06:26:07 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1073
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01068] Re: rand() / drand48()"
    on 00/01/08, GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp> writes:

|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.

I don't get it, sorry.  So do you think we should preserve this
undocumented behavior or not?  For me, current behavior (returns
random value for each run) is less confusing.

							matz.

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