Compile-Time RNG

[Cym13]

On Tuesday, 5 March 2019 at 22:57:31 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 March 2019 at 21:22:55 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 23:21:04 UTC, CTRNG wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Sorry for necroposting but does anyone have that POC? 
>> dpaste.dzfl.pl seems down.
>>
>> I'm currently facing a case where I would very much like to 
>> have random data at compile-time and I can't find a way to get 
>> them.
>>
>> Also the core.bitopt.bsf bug mentionned later in the thread 
>> was fixed so no luck there (and the bug report is still open, 
>> I think it should be closed).
>
> it's easy. you use the time_stamp at compilation which is 
> expressed as a certain lexer variable. you parse that at ctfe 
> and use it as the seed for another random number gen.

Thank you both!