From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T10:40:10+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 7:32 PM
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"
:)

Well, I don't think it's platform-specific, as I'm
also on Windows:

  ruby 1.7.3 (2002-11-17) [i386-mswin32]

Maybe version-specific? That's a tiny bit disturbing
if so...

Hal