default random object?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> auto rng = Random(unpredictableSeed);
>> auto a = 0.0, b = 1.0;
>> auto x1 = uniform!("[]")(rng, a, b);
>> auto x2 = uniform!("[)")(rng, a, b);
>> auto x3 = uniform!("(]")(rng, a, b);
>> auto x4 = uniform!("()")(rng, a, b);
> 
> I love your templates as much as the next guy, but let's not forget the 
> possibility of using different function names instead of templating 
> everything!?

I couldn't find good names. uniformOpenClosed, uniformOC, 
uniformOpenLeft... what would be some good names?

> And, as other have said, I'm ok with [) since that's what rand()%max 
> boiled down to as well. Futhermore, since arrays in D are also [), users 
> of D get used to it so it's not odd at all.

Ok. Let me just note that rand()%max is a lousy method of generating 
random numbers between 0 and max-1 and everybody should put that in the 
bin with Popular Examples That Should Never Be Used, together with 
exponential Fibonacci, linear-space factorial, and bubblesort.


Andrei