A Tausworthe random number generator

[terchestor]

On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 13:44:09 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 11:04:13 UTC, terchestor wrote:

> My major points would be:
> 1) Make it a "final class": By default, classes have all their 
> methods virtual. I don't think you want that.

You're right.

> 2) I'd adhere to the "Range" interface: Give your function the 
> "front"/"popFront()" functions, as well as the public "enum 
> empty = false".

That's and excellent idea because your final example is what I 
had in mind.

> 3) I think the *instance* itself should carry the bounds on 
> initialization, and provide a single "uniform" function.

There is a later version with only one uniform method. But I'd 
like to be able to change bounds with a single instance.

> 4) Uniform initialization: provide a "tausworthe(I = int, R = 
> double)(int seed, double low = 0.0, double high = 1.0 )" 
> function. This function should simply return a new instance of 
> a Tausworthe. The advantage of this are 2-fold:
> 4.1) Similar syntax for struct/class initialization
> 4.2) Default Type parameters for the type.

Excellent, as I said.

> The combination of 2/3/4 will allow you to write nifty things 
> like:
> int[] myRandomNumbers = tausworthe(randomSeed).take(10).array();
>
> And voila! An array of 10 random numbers! Easy-peasy.

I adhere.
Thanks for taking time to review first D try.