RandomSample with specified random number generator

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 23:32:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I'm not talking about passing them as refs. I'm talking about 
> making them
> reference types. It arguably makes no sense for random number 
> generators to be
> passed around by value. It makes it ludicrously easy to get the 
> same value
> multiple times simply because you passed it around.

I didn't have time to look at the specific issue with 
RandomSample yet, but I can confirm that the implications of the 
current RNG-as-a-value design were surprising for me as well when 
I first used std.random – I see the point in avoiding heap 
allocations whenever possible, though.

David