Generate array of random values

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 01.08.2011 23:43, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Actually I don't really need *uniform* distribution, it's just that
> when porting C code to D I didn't find any obvious random()/rnd()
> functions, and uniform seemed to be the closest thing without having
> to mess around with a bunch of randomization parameters which I don't
> care about.
>
> I don't see how we can claim D to be an elegant language with this mess:
> array(map!"a % 1024"(take(rndGen(), 1024)))
>
> That's just damn *horrible*.

Dunno maybe it's only me, but some years ago when I used C++98 & STL 
extensively I would find this line a very simple and clean solution. Now 
time is changing and so on...
A thought - would amap as a shorthand for array(map... float your boat? 
One pair of parens off.

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Dmitry Olshansky