On Sunday, 25 December 2022 at 14:47:49 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
wrote:
Just in case if you are not joking, caching a certain amount of
dice rolls to reuse them later in a circular fashion would make
a bad quality pseudorandom number generator (a slightly
upgraded version of the xkcd joke). Don't do this.
Naturally. I was joking, and I was also describing the erroneous
behavior of the parser of the language I was writing; which was
to substitute/cache a randomly generated number into a concrete
syntax tree when interpreted, instead of making actual calls to
the RNG at runtime, which is the correct (now current) behavior.
The joke was that I automated the manual dice-rolling part to
arrive more efficiently at the incorrect solution.
