Random distributions in Phobos

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 26/04/12 06:03, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> I suppose it would make sense for these to make it into phobos, personally am
> not familiar with the use case.

The use case is mostly to do with scientific simulation: if you look at most 
science-oriented languages and libraries (MATLAB/Octave, R, GNU Scientific 
Library, ...) they offer an extensive range of different random number 
distributions.

SciD would also be an acceptable location for this kind of functionality, but 
going by the example of e.g. Boost.Random it seems appropriate to have the basic 
RNG functionality coupled with extra distributions.  It's also clear from the 
std.random documentations that more distributions are planned for inclusion.

> Instead of writing the answer to your question here, I've made changes to the
> wiki. I think there is a page I'm missing but don't know where it is so maybe
> someone else will correct it:
>
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?HelpDProgress#ContributingtoPhobos

OK, thanks.  So to be clear: I should submit my proposed changes as a pull 
request, making sure to include a and should expect feedback after about 2 weeks 
... ?

I ask because I wasn't clear if I'd done the right thing when I submitted a pull 
request on my random sampling functionality.  I was expecting to get at least an 
acknowledgement quite quickly, either saying that the code would be looked at or 
highlighting an obvious missing factor (e.g. appropriate unittests or benchmarks).

Thanks & best wishes,

     -- Joe