default random object?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>>> auto b = uniform!("[]")(rng, byte.min, byte.max);
>>>>
>>>> Is this acceptable?
>>> If that's what it took I'd probably try this instead:
>>> ubyte b = uniform(rng, 0,256);
>>>
>>> And then add an explicit cast to ubyte if the compiler didn't like that.
>>> So no, I don't really think that's good enough.  Others may disagree
>>> about how important a use case this is, though.
>> This will indeed work:
>>
>> ubyte b = cast(ubyte) uniform(rng, 0,256);
>>
>> I just showed the solution involving no cast. So are you ok with that?
> 
> No, but if you are then I'll just make my own 1-liner library
> functions, so it's not a big deal.

What signatures would the functions have?

Andrei