From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T10:32:32+09:00
Subject: Re: .sig - was Re: Windows support

From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
> > >   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.

I definitely included the srand....  Haven't checked the Ruby src;
but maybe it calls a platform-specifc rand?


Regards,

Bill

P.S. what it yields on 1.6.6/mswin32 for me is, "aeoneR t rurhachJtykubs" :)