From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T10:10:56+09:00
Subject: Re: .sig - was Re: Windows support

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kelly" <billk@cts.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: .sig - was Re: Windows support


> From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
>
> > What do you think of this one?
> >
> >   str = "aa tut Rnrehoec Jykusbrh"; srand 0
> >   0.upto(999) {|i| x = rand(23); str[x,2] = str[x,2].reverse! }; puts
str
>
> LOL... :)  Were you joking, Hal?  Or is my 1.6.6 mswin32 possibly
> using a different algorothm for rand than your version?  I couldn't
> understand the result...    :(

That's very interesting.

You didn't omit the srand, did you?

For me, it prints "Just another Ruby hacker" --
and the srand is supposed to make the randomizing
deterministic or predictable.

Maybe that's only true within versions and/or
platforms.

Hal