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Summary: Random number generator builtin
Project: GNU M4
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Friday 03/16/2007 at 07:15 UTC
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 1 - Wish
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: None
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Details:
m4 lacks a random number generator builtin. I think it would be great if such
builtin existed. Currently I use something like:
dnl random(num): Evaluates to a random number from range 0..num-1.
define([random],[eval(esyscmd(printf $RANDOM) % $1)])dnl
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