hap.random: a new random number library for D

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 16:24:29 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Even if the 1.0.0 release of std.random2 is not much @nogc, in 
> my opinion it needs to have an API designed to allow it to be 
> retrofitted cleanly and nicely for @nogc usages too.

Completely agree.  Incidentally the library is intended for use 
with dmd 2.065+ which precludes unqualified use of @nogc for now, 
but that will be addressed after 2.066 is released and ldc/gdc 
upgrade their frontend/Phobos dependencies.

> If you are not using the GC, and you don't want to indicate 
> destruction, you have to use RAII and perhaps RefCounted. You 
> can allocate on the C heap manually, or on the stack, or you 
> can allocate on the stack or C heap using one of Andrei's 
> future allocators.

Stack allocation is arguably appropriate for stuff like Sample, 
however, the created entity needs to be able to escape the scope 
of the helper function which allocates it.