On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have yet to define a common interface e.g. RandomGenerator that Random, >> ThreadLocalRandom and SplittableRandom could implement, but it would be very >> easy to do so. Any thoughts on doing this? > > Hi Paul, > > Yes, a common interface is something that I missed sometimes. But now that we > have lambdas and method references, it's not difficult to just adapt > someRandom::nextLong to a LongSupplier or someRandom::nextDouble to a > DoubleSupplier, so it somehow looses the importance. Anyway, a special > interface might be a better fit for APIs taking random generators as > parameters from self-documenting perspective. The consumer of such interface > can also have more methods to choose from - it's not just a functional > interface. So I'm for such interface. >
Yes. Perhaps it would also allow us to deprecate Random in a future JDK? Perhaps there could be factory methods to obtain a PRNG based on generator properties rather than picking a specific class. Although there probably needs to two i/faces for that e.g. RandomGenerator and SplittableRandomGenerator (that extends for the former). Paul.
