Call for testers -- new next-gen random number library

Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 9 11:10:49 PDT 2014


Hello all,

Apologies for what is effectively cross-posting, but I want to be 
sure that this announcement reaches the widest possible audience.

I've just published a new dub package that is intended to serve 
as testing ground for a std.random successor:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/cmkzynauxgnfhbpeuejw@forum.dlang.org
http://braingam.es/2014/06/hap-random-a-new-random-number-library-for-d/
http://code.braingam.es/hap/random/

This library addresses the long-known issues related to the need 
for reference-type RNGs, and adds a number of pieces of new 
functionality taking advantage of that fact.

I was originally going to try and push this as a std.experimental 
module, but in light of recent discussion on std.experimental's 
purpose, I think it's best to go the dub route first and get some 
user experience before proceeding down that route.

So, I'd really appreciate it if as many of you as possible could 
give this an actual spin (not just reading the code:-) and report 
on how it works with your applications.

Thanks and best wishes,

     -- Joe


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