https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13924
Issue ID: 13924 Summary: Deprecate std.random.uniformDistribution Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: Phobos Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net std.random.uniformDistribution seems to me to be a function that doesn't do what it claims to do (i.e. it doesn't provide a uniform probability distribution in any meaningful sense that I can see), and also doesn't have any obvious application that I can see. The inability to generate an actual uniform distribution can be seen in the small-n limit; if the intention really is (as it seems to be) to provide the probability density function for a uniform distribution, then this could be calculated deterministically. The use of the name uniformDistribution also blocks a much more intuitive (IMHO) use: to refer to an entity that generates variates from such a distribution (cf. C++'s uniform_real_distribution and uniform_int_distribution). Apologies if I've misunderstood the purpose or application of this function, but without clarification, I'm inclined to think it should be marked as something not well-defined enough to hang around in Phobos. --