A simple solution for randomness copy problem

Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 30 06:01:45 PST 2016


On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 at 12:28:28 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
wrote:
> Of course they can work with random devices. It looks strange 
> to me to have explicit  API difference between engines and 
> devices. A random devices can be marked as random engines or we 
> can add a simple generic adaptor (Device->Engine) for them.

The terminology here (from the C++11 <random> standard) is:

   * generator == source of uniformly-distributed random bits

   * engine == pseudo-random generator (i.e. seedable sequences)

   * device == 'truly random' generator

> I will be happy to se your PR for random devices to mir-random.

I'll see what I can do.


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