Interesting bug with std.random.uniform and dchar

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 11:17:41AM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On 08/06/14 11:02, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> >Why would we ban uniform!T from accepting dchar? I see no reason for that.
> >
> >Let's just fix the bug by tweaking the internal check.
> 
> Yea, I came to the same conclusion while working on it. :-)
> 
> The solution I have is (i) in uniform!"[]" check that !is(ResultType
> == dchar) before checking the condition for calling
> uniform!ResultType, and (ii) inside uniform!T, place
> 
>     static if (is(T == dchar))
>     {
>         return uniform!"[]"(T.min, T.max, rng);
>     }

Doesn't wchar need to have a similar specialization too? Aren't some
values of wchar invalid as well?


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