Convert std.random to a package

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 14:28:52 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 14:16:04 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> I certainly don't mind putting this on the back burner until 
> "what a proper solution looks like" is ironed out.

I'm sympathetic to this approach. I wouldn't get too far ahead of 
yourself though. The easier it is for people to switch to your 
new approach the better (which seems interesting, I loved your 
DConf talk).

It seems like you are focused on the core random number 
generators at the moment. I don't have much experience working on 
them, but I do with statistics and statistical packages more 
generally. Some language's statistical support is better 
organized than others. For instance, python has numpy.random and 
scipy.stats and both of them can generate random variables from a 
variety of different distributions. scipy.stats by itself isn't 
that bad, I suppose. It has a similar set-up as Julia's 
Distributions.jl. They're both more than just random number 
generators, allowing a variety of functions (pdfs, cdfs, etc). It 
seems like they both take a class approach using a lot of 
inheritance.