From: hadley wickham <h.wickham@...>
Date: 2007-09-16T00:39:23+09:00
Subject: Re: will we have rand(m, n)?

On 9/15/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/15/07, kendear <summercoolness@gmail.com> wrote:
> > given the ease of using Ruby, I wonder whether we will have rand(m, n) in
> > the future...
> >
> > right now, we need to use rand(range) + start
> >
> > and it can cause a bug that can otherwise be avoided if we have rand(m, n)
> > for the clarity.
>
> Why not instead suggest rand(m..n)? That would, I think, be more
> readable than rand(m, n).

But would that draw discrete or continuous random numbers?

Hadley