RandomSample with specified random number generator

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, June 15, 2012 10:09:28 Jens Mueller wrote:
> 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?

I think so.

- Jonathan M Davis