"WRW" == William R Ward <William> writes: WRW> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fglock) writes: >> Jay Soffian wrote: >> > calibrate(); # takes a second or two to complete >> >> You could calibrate when installing the module, maybe.
WRW> For years when calling rand() you had to remember to first call WRW> srand() to initialize the random-number generator. Then a few WRW> versions of Perl ago, that requirement was removed - rand() will WRW> automatically initialize it if it has not already been done explicitly WRW> with srand(). You might do well to follow the example. WRW> Also "calibrate" is a pretty generic term that could easily conflict WRW> with a subroutine in the script that loads your module. WRW> calibrate_rate() might be less likely to cause problems. Good points. Turns out I don't need the calibrate function at all though, so I'll just remove it. j.
