RandomSample with specified random number generator

[Jens Mueller]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, June 14, 2012 23:37:05 jerro wrote:
> > Issues with copying rngs are not unique to randomSample - anyone
> > who uses random number generators will run into them
> > sooner or later. So the problem is not that randomSample takes
> > a rng as a parameter - it's that rngs are value types. The
> > proper solution would be to make them reference types.
> 
> Exactly. This has been discussed before (IIRC, there's a bug report which 
> discusses it). The most straightforward solution is to change the random 
> number generator ranges to classes, but that _will_ break code, because 
> they're constructed completely differently.

Is this
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7067
the bug report you are referring to?

Jens