Random.next is deprecated

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 20:56:09 PDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Moritz Warning <moritzwarning at web.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:50:00 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jarrett Billingsley
>> <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Sam Hu <samhu.samhu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks Jarrett.
>>>>
>>>> It works now.But I am wondering why does such changes,any special
>>>> reason?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Dunno.  Maybe they're planning on having other kinds of RNGs in
>>> tango.math.random.
>>>
>>>
>> I was wondering about that Kiss module too.  I really hope it's not Kiss
>> as in "keep it simple stupid".  If so I think I'm going to barf. Please
>> tell me there's some RNG algorithm known as Kiss.  Googling didn't turn
>> it up, but maybe my google-fu is just weak.
>>
>> --bb
>
> It's the name of a RNG by Marsaglia.
> 287     + a simple RNG
>

Whew!  I was afraid Tango had gone all cutesy on us for a while there.
Like out with tango.group, in with Tango "Kiss" modules.
Seriously.  So glad to hear it's just the name of a RNG.  Sorry to
find out my Google-fu is so weak, though.  :-(

--bb


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