On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Peter Bex <pe...@more-magic.net> wrote: > Yeah, the numbers random implementation is shitty, which is why I > decided to omit it from my port to CHICKEN core (CHICKEN 5's random is > still fixnum only). Personally, I think it would be better if we simply > got rid of all "random" support in core, because there's no way this is ever > going to satisfy everyone. Besides, the standard C library functions are > deeply flawed, especially on some platforms like OS X.
I think that if you keep removing features from core, we will soon run out of them. When I use “stock" random functions in any language I don’t have high expectations, but for sure, I always expect a random function to be readily available. Regards, Michele _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users